[Support #FIR-444705]: Re: Gempak

Karl,

If you want to use a binary distribution of GEMPAK, then you will have to keep 
up to date
with MacOSX. Our system I am building on is:

> sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.4.8

The Darwin kernel is 8.8.0.

The early MacOSX releases did not have message queue support under Darwin, so 
you would not 
be able to run GEMPAK on those tiger/jaguar names (even with a local build). 
Your March 2005 
distribution seems really old in the life of a Mac- so its possible your OS 
didn't have the
full BSD support at that time.

To build locally, you need to create a consistent gcc/g77 and X11/OpenMotif 
environment.
Apple's gcc build did not supply g77 (eg languages only c, c++, objc).
At this point both of the machine I have access to are PPC machines.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



> Hi Steve,
> 
> Apparantly it is the kernel. If I upgrade to Mac OS 10.4.x do you think it
> will be fixed?
> 
> The environment etc. is correct. Here are the kernel details and the
> result of sourcing the environment and running sflist:
> 
> pisces:~ root# uname -a
> Darwin pisces.cosmic.ucar.edu 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 30 
> 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh 
> powerpc
> 
> pisces:~ khudnut$ . /usr/local/gempak/NAWIPS/Gemenviron.profile
> pisces:~ khudnut$ sflist
> dyld: sflist Undefined symbols:
> sflist undefined reference to ___stderrp expected to be defined in 
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> sflist undefined reference to ___stdinp expected to be defined in 
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> sflist undefined reference to ___stdoutp expected to be defined in 
> /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
> Trace/BPT trap
> pisces:~ khudnut$
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Dr. Karl Hudnut        System Administrator      UCAR - COSMIC
> address@hidden    http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu    303 497 8024
> 
> 
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Unidata GEMPAK Support wrote:
> 
> > Karl,
> >
> > GEMPAK is not linked against shareable libraries, so adding $GEMLIB to your
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH won't have much effect on running GEMPAK programs.
> >
> > Going back to your description of "no luck":
> >
> > > > Says here: To start a GEMPAK program, type the name of the program in
> > > > lower case...so let's say I open my bash shell and do:
> > > >
> > > > sflist
> > > >
> > > > so far no luck...
> >
> >
> > Can you elaborate on the luckless output above?
> >
> > Assuming you have downloaded the MAC OSX binary distribution and installed 
> > according to the installation web page...
> >
> > Have you edited the Gemenviron.profile file for your environmental 
> > variables, and then sourced the file into your
> > bash environment with
> > . "somepath"/Gemenviron.profile
> >
> > Is sflist in your path after doing that?
> > Are you getting any output to the terminal about your lack of luck?
> >
> > The Mac OSX binaries were compiled under Darwin Kernel Version 8.8.0 if you 
> > are missing any gcc libraries.
> >
> > Steve Chiswell
> > Unidata User Support
> > >
> > > OK, get ready for a basic question:
> > >
> > > Does Mac O/S use LD_LIBRARY_PATH or something else?
> > >
> > > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$GEMLIB:/usr/lib/:/lib
> > >
> > > did not solve the sflist missing libraries problem. Am I barking up the
> > > wrong tree?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dr. Karl Hudnut        System Administrator      UCAR - COSMIC
> > > address@hidden    http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu    303 497 8024
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Jeff Weber wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Maggie,
> > > >
> > > > If GEMPAK is installed...and in your path, you should see something 
> > > > like:
> > > >
> > > > (jweber) lenny:/home/jweber 1 % sflist
> > > >  SFFILE    Surface data file                 $GEMDATA/HRCBOB.SFC
> > > >  AREA      Data area                         WV
> > > >  DATTIM    Date/time                         LAST
> > > >  SFPARM    Surface parameter list            
> > > > SKYC;TMPF;WSYM;PMSL;;DWPF;BRBK
> > > >  OUTPUT    Output device/filename            T
> > > >  IDNTYP    STNM or STID                      STID
> > > >  Parameters requested: SFFILE,AREA,DATTIM,SFPARM,OUTPUT,IDNTYP.
> > > >  GEMPAK-SFLIST>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I suspect one of the above is not happening :)
> > > >
> > > > What does: echo $GEMDATA
> > > >
> > > > and: echo $GEMPAK  return, it should look something  like this:
> > > >
> > > > (jweber) lenny:/home/jweber 2 % echo $GEMDATA
> > > > /data/ldm/gempak
> > > > (jweber) lenny:/home/jweber 3 % echo $GEMPAK
> > > > /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.1/gempak
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hope this helps,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jeff
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > Jeff Weber                                    address@hidden        :
> > > > Unidata Program Center                        PH:303-497-8676        :
> > > > University Corp for Atmospheric Research      3300 Mitchell Ln       :
> > > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber      Boulder,Co 80307-3000  :
> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, maggie wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hello Jeff:
> > > > > So I am going to learn Gempak and create all those really nice 
> > > > > plots....
> > > > > hopefully...
> > > > >
> > > > > And
> > > > >
> > > > > Here I am web/manual tutorial on my lap...
> > > > > I am on:
> > > > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/gempak/tutorial/layout2a.html
> > > > >
> > > > > Says here: To start a GEMPAK program, type the name of the program in
> > > > > lower case...so let's say I open my bash shell and do:
> > > > >
> > > > > sflist
> > > > >
> > > > > so far no luck...
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas??
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you all.
> > > > > Maggie
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Maggie Sleziak-Sallee
> > > > > Software Engineer I
> > > > > COSMIC - UCAR
> > > > > Phone: 303-497-8020
> > > > > Email: address@hidden
> > > > > http://www.cosmic.ucar.edu/
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: FIR-444705
> > Department: Support GEMPAK
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Closed
> >
> 
> 


Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: FIR-444705
Department: Support GEMPAK
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed