Re: LDM 5.0.8 release (fwd)

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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/
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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...
> 
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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/
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