[LDM #EBA-558540]: LDM v.6.11.5 compilation failure [Mac OS X v.10.8.4]

Dave,

> This works--thanks!

You're most welcome.

> A couple of comments and questions about LDM v.6.11.5:
> 
> (1) "make install" appears to install files in ~/bin, ~/include, and ~/share, 
> rather than in ~/ldm-6.11.5/bin, ~/ldm-6.11.5/include, and 
> ~/ldm-6.11.5/share, respectively. The latter is what installations of 
> previous versions of the LDM have done. In fact, ldm-6.11.5 lacks bin, 
> include, and share subdirectories at all, and none are created during the 
> installation.
> 
> With a previous installation of the LDM in place, ~/bin, ~/include, and 
> ~/share are symbolic links to the corresponding directories in ~/runtime, and 
> runtime is a symbolic link to the previous LDM installation directory 
> (~/ldm-6.10.1 in my case). Hence, "make install" in ~/ldm-6.11.5 installs 
> files in the bin, include, and share directories of the previous LDM 
> installation. When I finish the installation, I shut down the LDM, remove 
> runtime, and reestablish runtime to point to ~ldm-6.11.5. At that point, 
> ~/bin, ~/include, and ~/share now point to non-existent versions in 
> ~/ldm-6.11.5, and so no LDM executables reside in any path specified for the 
> ldm account.
> 
> If I shut down the LDM, remove runtime, and reestablish it to point to 
> ~/ldm-6.11.5 before compiling and installing, the "make install" step crashes 
> because the ~/run, ~/include, and ~/share subdirectories don't exist. (They 
> would have to be in ~/ldm-6.11.5/.)
> 
> I got around the apparent problem by creating bin, include, and share 
> subdirectories in ~/ldm-6.11.5 first, but this doesn't seem as if it should 
> be necessary.
> 
> I couldn't find anything in the current documentation about this.

Whoa! The LDM installation definitely shouldn't do that! It doesn't here and 
this is the first I've heard of it.

I'll investigate.

> (2) When I run LDM v.6.11.5 (like LDM v.6.10.1), messages are logged to 
> /var/log/system.log, not ~/logs/ldmd.log. In most previous versions of the 
> LDM, I had to edit a system file that specifies where various utilities 
> should log their messages, but those instructions are no longer part of the 
> LDM documentation (at 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/ldm/ldm-6.11.5/basics/index.html#installation,
>  under "Installing, Configuring, and Activating the LDM System > 
> Preinstallation Steps").
> 
> What do I need to do to redirect the LDM's message logging?

Appropriately modifying the system logging daemon's configuration-file is part 
of the "make install" -- assuming you gave it root's password. The file 
/etc/*syslog.conf
should have two entries:

    local0.none        /var/log/messages

and

    local0.*           ~ldm/var/logs/ldmd.log

where "~ldm" stands for the LDM user's home directory. If these entries aren't 
in the file, then something went wrong with the installation.

What operating-system did this occur on? If Linux, is SELINUX enabled?

> -- Dave
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson

Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: EBA-558540
Department: Support LDM
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed