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Jeff, gcc will work. I talked to Jeff and Anne. Anne will contact you about downloading a binary of pqing if that will work for the short term solution. Steve Chiswell >From: Jeff Masters <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200008111639.e7BGdkN02872 > >OK, I'll give it a whirl, it used to be you couldn't use gcc. Jeff, are >you sure you want LDM 5.0.11, and not LDM 5.1.1 or LDM 5.1.2? > >Jeff >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Dr. Jeff Masters (address@hidden) ( ) > Chief Meteorologist /\ Home of the ( ) > The Weather Underground, Inc. /\ / \ /\ /\ ( ) > P.O. Box 3605 / \/ \/ \ /\ / \ ------ > Ann Arbor, MI 48106-3605 ______/ / \/ \_ \\\\\ > 734-994-8824 (voice) Weather Underground \`\`\ > 734-994-8919 (fax) http://www.wunderground.com > > >On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Unidata Support wrote: > >> >> Jeff, >> >> You can you use gcc to build LDM so you don't have to buy a C compiler. >> >> Steve Chiswell >> >> >> >> >> >> >From: Jeff Masters <address@hidden> >> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >> >Keywords: 200008111620.e7BGKON01916 >> >> > >> > Hi Jeff, we have a few difficulties we would have to overcome to do >> >this. >> > >> > Our SSEC ingest box is running Solaris 5.6, and came without a C >> >compiler. We either have to upgrade the OS or buy a C compiler (not likely >> >anytime soon, we don't have much interest in this box), or you would have >> >to supply a binary release of LDM for Solaris 5.6. >> > >> > Option 2: We are doing the ingest on a Linux box, too, but it is running >> >custom software that doesn't do the PILs. Alan Steremberg of our group has >> >looked at doing the software mods to accomplish this, since this is >> >something we eventually want to have on our ingest box, but I'm not sure >> >how far he got with the project. He might need smome help from your team >> >to accomplish this. >> > >> >Jeff >> >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- >> > Dr. Jeff Masters (address@hidden) ( > ) >> > Chief Meteorologist /\ Home of the ( > ) >> > The Weather Underground, Inc. /\ / \ /\ /\ ( > ) >> > P.O. Box 3605 / \/ \/ \ /\ / \ ---- > -- >> > Ann Arbor, MI 48106-3605 ______/ / \/ \_ \\\ > \\ >> > 734-994-8824 (voice) Weather Underground \` > \`\ >> > 734-994-8919 (fax) http://www.wunderground.com >> > >> >On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Jeff Weber wrote: >> > >> >> Hi Jeff, >> >> >> >> We have noticed that the products arriving from wunderground are without >> >> the pils identifiers. This could cause some downstream issues with >> >> machines pqact.conf. >> >> >> >> Would you, could you please update to ldm 5.0.11 to include the pils >> >> identifiers? >> >> >> >> Let me know if this is a problem. >> >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> >> >> -Jeff >> >> ____________________________ _____________________ >> >> Jeff Weber address@hidden >> >> Unidata Support PH:303-497-8676 >> >> NWS-COMET Case Study Library FX:303-497-8690 >> >> University Corp for Atmospheric Research 3300 Mitchell Ln >> >> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/jweber Boulder,Co 80307-3000 >> >> ________________________________________ ______________________ >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> **************************************************************************** >> Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program >> (303)497-8644 P.O. Box 3000 >> address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ >> **************************************************************************** >> >