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>From: "Anderson, Alan C. " <address@hidden> >Organization: St. Cloud State >Keywords: 200402061721.i16HLLp1027829 LDM configure install Hi Alan, >Thanks for prompt reply, but I am wondering >about the failure statements near the end of my >config.log ? Your config.log is the output of configure. What configure does is to try compiling little test programs to figure out what is supported by your setup. It uses compile failures to learn what kinds of defines must be made in the C code to build successfully. The really important log output is the stuff that gets written to the screen when one runs configure, especially the end stuff. Here is what you sent in: creating cache ./config.cache checking user-defined C compiler "/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc" checking C compiler... works checking the installation prefix... /usr/local/ldm/ldm-6.0.14 checking domain name... stcloudstate.edu checking how to run the C preprocessor... /opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc -E checking for AIX... no checking for HP-UX... no checking whether memory-mapping by region is appropriate... no checking the C preprocessor... works checking for ar... ar checking for perl... /bin/perl checking for POSIX shell... /bin/sh checking for yacc... yacc checking for yacc library... checking for yyerror() in default library(s)... no checking for yyerror() in -ly... yes checking mmap()... yes checking LDMHOME... /usr/local/ldm checking size of int... 4 checking size of long... 4 checking for ANSI C header files... yes checking for size_t... yes checking for off_t... yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking for ptrdiff_t... yes checking for socklen_t... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for fsync... yes checking for ftruncate... yes checking for memmove... yes checking for memcmp... yes checking for rename... yes checking for strerror... yes checking for waitpid... yes checking for strdup... yes checking for seteuid... yes checking for setenv... no checking for mmap... yes checking for sig_atomic_t in signal.h... defined checking for working const... yes checking for st_blksize in struct stat... yes checking for sigaction... yes checking RPC and socket references... -R/usr/ucblib -L/usr/ucblib -lrpcsoc -lnsl -lsocket checking ulog defines... -D_DEV_CONSLOG checking for gdbm_open in -lgdbm... no configure: warning: GDBMLIB not set checking for dbm_open... yes checking for catman... catman checking for manual-page index command... catman -w -M $(MANDIR) updating cache ./config.cache creating ./config.status creating macros.make creating pqbinstats/mailpqstats creating scour/scour creating scripts/ldmadmin creating scripts/ldmprods creating scripts/ldmfail creating scripts/netcheck creating scripts/syscheck creating scripts/ldmcheck creating config/ldmconfig.h You see that this ends with no complaints. If there had been anything seriously wrong, you would have gotten an error message here and configure would have terminated abnormally. The end of your ./configure output looks normal, so you can plunge in at this point and build the executables, and then do the installs as per my previous email. Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.