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

Dave,

> I have a more concise statement of the problem that I reported above. When I 
> uncompressed and untarred ldm-6.11.5.tar.gz ("gunzip -c ldm-6.11.5.tar.gz | 
> tar xvd -"), all of the files and subdirectories ended up in ~/ldm-6.11.5 
> instead of in ~/ldm-6.11.5/src. That is, there was no src subdirectory in 
> ldm-6.11.5. That's why running "make install", which I did from ~/ldm-6.11.5 
> (because that's where all the files were), tried to put files into ~/bin, 
> ~/lib, ~/include, and ~/share instead of into the corresponding 
> subdirectories one level down, in ~/ldm-6.11.5/.

Ah! That would cause the problem.

> So, the easiest way around the problem was to uncompress/untar 
> ldm-6.11.5.tar.gz, relocate into ldm-6.11.5, create "src", move all other 
> files and subdirectories into src, relocate to src, and then proceed with the 
> usual installation.
> 
> So the question is, why do the source files start out in ldm-6.11.5 instead 
> of in ldm-6.11.5/src?

The GNU Automake tools are used to release-engineer the LDM package and they 
insist on creating a tarball without an "src" directory. This is why the 
instructions for building the package 
<http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/ldm/ldm-current/basics/source-install-steps.html>
 create that directory using either pax(1) or a somewhat complicated command.

It's a pain in the butt, but the benefits of using those tools outweigh their 
costs, on average.

Kudos for figuring this out.

> I've attached to source code bundle that I've been working with, in case it 
> turns out to be a different species from yours.
> 
> --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