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>From: Jose F Nieves <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200507221607.j6MG7mjo024163 >> >> Jose, >> >> Your compilation must have failed in the $NAWIPS/unidata/ldmbridge >> directory which contains those decoders. >> >> Check you make log (or cd to that directory and type >> "make clean", followed by "make all" to see if compilation >> fails at some point. The most likely reason would be that >> the jasper library in $GEMPAK/source/jasper failed to build >> so that dcgrib2 can't build/link. >> >> The 32bit freebsd should run on your system. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Jose, Your freebsd installation should provide the compatibility libraries to run 32 bit executables. Steve Chiswell Unidata User Support >Steve > > Thanks, I will check what you mentioned. One question: >Can I install/run the 32bit binary in the 64 bit OS or do I have >to install a 32 bit OS? > >Jose > > >> >> Steve Chiswell >> Unidata User Support >> >> >From: Jose F Nieves <address@hidden> >> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >> >Keywords: 200507221348.j6MDmSjo006454 >> >> >Hello >> > >> >I have always installed gempak from a binary distribution, >> >but now I compiled it (5.8.2a) myself on a amd64 (freebsd) machine >> >because I did not find a native binary for that arch. >> > >> >But some decoders are missing: e.g., at least dcgrib2 dctrop dcstorm. >> > >> >Do they come in a separate package or somehing must have been wrong >> >in my compilation? >> > >> >Thanks >> > >> >Best regards >> > >> >Jose F Nieves >> >Dept. of Physics >> >U of Puerto Rico >> > >> -- >> **************************************************************************** > >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program > >> (303)497-8643 P.O. Box 3000 > >> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Unidata WWW Service http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the >> Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available >> through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made >> available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us. > -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.