Re: 20050225: NPROGS on MacOS-X platform

Steve,

Thanks for the interesting news.  I appreciate your efforts to expand  
GEMPAK's Mac capabilities.

Cheers, Steven
On May 20, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Unidata Support wrote:

> Steve,
>
> Russ was able to let me test out Max OS 10.4.1 (Tiger plus an update,
> which provides Darwin 8.1.0) on his laptop, and I can get a message  
> queue to
> work now, and have been able to build openmotif so I will be able to  
> put together
> a test binary distribution to kick the tires on. Our OSX workstation  
> is still running
> Panther, so development is limited to when Russ' laptop is on the  
> network here.
>
> Steve Chiswell
> Unidata User Support
>
> > Antti,
> >
> > MacOSX is not a platform that I support at this time for GEMPAK
> > due to the limitation of the OS support for the SYSV message queues.
> >
> > The package will build using open motif and g77/gcc ( I tested using  
> > Fink's
> > distributions). Decoders and GUIs will run, while command line  
> > programs that
> > use message queue's build will not. Developers environments for X11  
> > and
> > Motif are needed.
> >
> > At the time I tested, the Apple gcc/g77 had a version incompatibility  
> > with
> > libg2c, which led me to use the Fink version.
> >
> >
> > Steve Chiswell
> > Unidata User Support
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, A Pessi wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > does anybody have any experience in running NPROGS like nmap2,  
> > > ntrans,
> > > nsharp etc. on a MacOS platform?
> > >
> > > How about generally using Mac as a Visualization Lab platform for
> > > Unidata software?
> > >
> > > Any comments welcome!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Antti
> > >
> > > --
> > > ******************************
> > > Antti Pessi
> > > University of Hawaii
> > > Department of Meteorology
> > > 2525 Correa Road, HIG367
> > > Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
> > > tel: (808) 956-4593
> > > fax: (808) 956-2877
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