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On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Anne Wilson wrote: > Steven Danz wrote: > > > > Hi > > > > I have a person trying to install 5.1.2 on an HPUX 11.0 box. > > Their first problem was that the configure script would not detect > > that they had an HPUX 11.0 box when trying to find rpc libraries. > > Changing line 1856 in the configure script from: > > HP-UX\ ?.11*) > > to > > HP-UX\ ?.11.*) > > Steve, We could not reproduce the problem, it was tried in a variety of shells. The * in the expression is file expansion, not a regular expression expansion so the the dot is not necessary. This is not to say that you didn't need the dot in your environment but maybe you could try a different shell and/or environments. Robb... > > (note the . in front of the *) seemed to fix it. > > > > Now that it builds, it will not run. He is seeing the same problem reported > > by Brian Maher back in June of 1999 (see > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm/3049) > > > > I can't find any resolution to this problem in the archive, do you know if > > there > > was one? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Steven Danz > > Hi Steve, > > Well, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news for your person. The new > version of the LDM will not run on an HPUX 11.0. We're aware of the problem > but we're not sure how to fix it. Unfortunately, the priority of the problem > is currently not very high on our list, in part due to other pressing issues > but also in part due to the fact that we don't have a support contract with > HPUX. If your person is interested and willing to delve into this, any and > all information would be greatly appreciated. I suspect a call to HP would > be in order. > > Regarding the configure script, although we were unable to run the software > on our HPUX 11.0, we were at least able to build it. We didn't encounter > this particular problem. Still, I will pass this information on. > > I'm sorry the news isn't better. > > Anne > -- > *************************************************** > Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program > address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 > Boulder, CO 80307 > ---------------------------------------------------- > Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ > **************************************************** > =============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ===============================================================================