20000210: McIDAS-X on Linux at MSFC

>From: Paul Meyer <address@hidden>
>Organization: NASA/MSFC
>Keywords: 200002101928.MAA23536 McIDAS-X Linux

Paul,

Even though you followed up the first message below with encouraging
information about progress, I wanted to touch base with you about
your efforts of getting McIDAS-X working on Linux.

o what version of Linux are you working with
o did you update the files like I indicated in my previous message to
  Anthony

My experience with getting the build to go on Linux is that you should
not have to struggle.

>     I'm trying to do the install which Anthony Guillory had written to
>you about.  I am slowly trudging through it. Perhaps I need to start
>over and get clean versions of everything out there again.

This may be a wise move.

>     I found the hidden VENDOR option in mcinst.sh (or something like
>that) It caused grief for a while.  Eventually, it barfed on netcdf -
>I think I found the problems there and it has gotten past that.

Did you review the release notes in:

Notes and Warnings
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/mcidas/mcx/warnings_mcx.html

This describes environment variables that must be defined so that
the netCDF portion of McIDAS-X will build cleanly.

>Now I'm
>having problems in the tk stuff.  I forced a library in the Makefile -

You should not have had to do this.  The build should be nice and clean.
This may relate to the version of Linux you are using; what is it?

>It could not find the tcl stuff.  here are the errors I'm getting now.
>THis is getting painful.

It really shouldn't be.  Something must be wrong.

>Note my forced -ltcl8.0  (I installed it in /usr/local/lib through a
>make install in the tcl/unix subdirectory)  I will peruse your hints and
>problems page some more. Perhaps I did things in the wrong order.
>
>cc  tkAppInit.o -L/home/people/mcidas/mcidas7.6/tk/unix -ltk80 -ltcl8.0
>-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11  -lm -lc \
>         -o wish
>/usr/local/lib/libtcl8.0.a(tclLoadDl.o): In function `TclLoadFile':
>tclLoadDl.o(.text+0x25): undefined reference to `dlopen'
>tclLoadDl.o(.text+0x38): undefined reference to `dlerror'
>tclLoadDl.o(.text+0x69): undefined reference to `dlsym'
>tclLoadDl.o(.text+0xb8): undefined reference to `dlsym'
>tclLoadDl.o(.text+0xd9): undefined reference to `dlsym'
>tclLoadDl.o(.text+0x128): undefined reference to `dlsym'
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>make: *** [wish] Error 1
>
>
>    Any hints or further clues you can lend would be appreciated.

We should probably drop back to a clean beginning at this point.

>>From address@hidden  Thu Feb 10 15:35:00 2000
>
>    I looked around at your e-mail list and found something refering to
>the dlopen etc problem.  I am now past that. Hopefully, the rest of the
>compilation and installation will go smoothly????

Let's talk (email) tomorrow.  If you like, I could login and take a
quick look to see what is going amiss.

Tom