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>From: Erick Lorenz (address@hidden) <address@hidden> >Organization: UC Davis >Keywords: 199912100033.RAA06506 ldm-mcidas Erick, >I am trying to configure my LDM-McIDAS system to receive numerical products. LDM-MCIDAS system? Do you mean that you are attempting to get McIDAS to display model output? >As near as I can figure I am supposed to install the decoders-2.3.5 package. If you are really referring to McIDAS, then the decoders package has nothing to do with getting/decoding the gridded data. The ingesting is done by the LDM getting HRS products; the decoding is done by McIDAS-XCD. It could be that decoding of the gridded products has not been enabled on your new ingest system (since you moved things over to your DEC alpha (true?)). This would be done by: o having the 'xcd_run HRS' action _not_ commented in ~ldm/etc/pqact.conf o becoming 'mcidas' and: cd workdata decinfo.k SET DMGRID ACTIVE Assuming that the REDIRECTions for McIDAS GRID files are correct and that the only thing wrong was that the gridded data decoding was not turned on (it is sent out this way in the distribution), then you should start getting data. We can address the rest of your message as soon as we are sure that we are talking about the same things. >When I ran make on decoders I got the following message: > >./configure: ERROR: The following variables need values: > >VARIABLE DESCRIPTION EXAMPLE >-------- ------- ------- >CPP_NETCDF netCDF header -I/usr/local/unidata/include >LD_NETCDF netCDF library -L/usr/local/unidata/lib -lnetcdf >CPP_UDUNITS udunits header -I/usr/local/unidata/include > >Not finding a local copy of either netCDF or udunits I endevored to install >them both. The netCDF install seemed to go OK but when I ran the >suggested command for udunits: > > (./configure && make all install clean) >&! log & > >no peer directories such as bin and lib were created. The end of the >log files contains the following >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >making `all' in directory /usr/local/udunits-1.11.7/src/udunits > >/bin/cc -c -O -I../lib -I../port/misc udunits.c >/bin/cc -o udunits -O udunits.o -L/usr/local/udunits-1.11.7/src/lib - >ludunits -L/usr/local/udunit >s-1.11.7/src/port/misc -ludport -ly >ld: >Unresolved: >fmod >ldexp >log10 >modf >pow >floor >ceil >*** Exit 1 >Stop. >*** Exit 1 >Stop. >*** Exit 1 >Stop. >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >My questions are: > >1. Am I on the right track for getting model data/numerical products? > >2. What am I missing in the udunits build? > >Erick Lorenz, LAWR, UCDavis Tom Yoksas