20010402: building a new CIRCLE

>From: "Alliss, Randall J." <address@hidden>
>Organization: TASC
>Keywords: 200104021748.f32HmOL10344 McIDAS-X CIRCLE

Randy,

Previously, you wrote:

>russ,
>
>yes we use mccomp. I will try that. Am i suppose to compile as user mcidas
>or another user?
>when we compiled unidata mcidas the CIRCLE command was in CORE.

I include CIRCLE as a standard part of the Unidata McIDAS distribution.

>Perhaps i will email Tom Yoksas to make sure i dont break anything.

>Tom,
>
>Russ has sent me a new copy of his CIRCLE code which i want to compile on my
>alpha. The question is how to do this without messing up anything else,
>including the existing CIRCLE executable.

If you do not want to lose the current version of CIRCLE (circle.k), then
you need to save it off before building a new version.  The absolute
easiest way to do this is for sites running the Unidata distribution of
McIDAS is:

<login as 'mcidas'>

<save off the old CIRCLE executable and help files>

cd ~/bin
mv circle.k circleold.k
cd ~/help
mv circle.hlp circleold.hlp

<save off the old CIRCLE source>

cd ~/mcidas7.7/src
mv circle.pgm circle.pgm.old

<build the new CIRCLE executable>

<copy the new circle.pgm source to ~/mcidas7.7/src
make circle.k circle.hlp
ln circle.k ~/bin
ln circle.hlp ~/help

>I am enclosing his new CIRCLE code.

OK.  I will take a quick look.

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Russ Dengel [mailto:address@hidden]
>> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 1:41 PM
>> To: Alliss, Randall J.
>> Subject: Re: A NEW CIRCLE just for you
>> 
>> "Alliss, Randall J." wrote:
>> 
>> > Russ,
>> >
>> > can you give me those commands. am i supposed to be user 
>> mcidas when i do
>> > this?
>> >
>> > Randy
>> >
>> 
>>     Randy,
>> 
>>         I'm not sure how you do your compiles there. Do you 
>> use the mccomp
>> script? How did you get the executable for version of CIRCLE that your
>> running.
>> 
>>          Dave Santek suggests that you could try FX (if you have it).
>> 
>>      Russ