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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 19:21:44 GMT From: David J. Knight <address@hidden> To: address@hidden Subject: Re: LDM 5.0.8 release Hi Robb, Is there any particular reason that the gdbm stuff was left out of this version? It sure makes it a pain for those of us who use "weather" to compile the ldm and have DBFILE to work. rant off... David > > In particular, this distribution does not include the gdbm library, > and so would not be backward compatiable with Peter Neilley's weather. > If someone is building from source (or we are building binaries), an > existing gdbm library can be used by setting the environment variable > GDBMLIB prior to running configure. If the system already has gdbm > installed in a place where the linker can find it simply by '-lgdbm', this > is detected automatically and it is not necessary to set GDBMLIB manually. > This _is_ the case on Linux, so it builds in a Neilly compatible way by > default on Linux. > > Glenn also made the WMO header test in pqing/afos_message.c more lenient > for AFOS feed. > > This is a binary as well as a source code release, there are binaries > available for: > > linux_2.2-i686/ > linux_2.2.5-i686/ > osf1_4.0-alpha/ > hpux_11.00-hp9000/ > sunos_5.6-i86pc/ > hpux_10.20-hp9000/ > sunos_5.7-i86pc/ > sunos_5.7-sparc/ > irix_6.5-mips/ > sunos_5.6-sparc/ > aix_4.3-rs6000/ > irix64_6.5-mips/ > > There are on-line installation instructions on the LDM home page. Report any > problems to address@hidden . > > Robb... > > =============================================================================== > Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center > Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research > address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > =============================================================================== >