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>From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Pag=E9?= <address@hidden> >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200510031831.j93IVMG7009290 McIDAS Fedora Core 4 Hi Christian, re: building McIDAS on FC4 64bit >There was also a problem with our kernel probably. Running: 'yum >update' and rebooting fixed the problems. Interesting. What revision of the kernel are you now running (output of 'uname -a')? Also, my previous advice about adding '-j 1' should _not_ have made a difference since this _should_ be the default. I have considered adding a 'sleep 1' to mcar.sh (the script that adds members to libraries in the McIDAS build) so that all modules will actually be added to the library. The symptoms of what was happening was that 'ar' was told to add a list of object modules to a library (either libmcidas.a or libsdi.a) but only some of them would actually be added. We figured that the problem was that the operation was being done in memory which was not correctly being flushed to disk. Your report of the problem going away with a kernel upgrade would seem to reinforce this notion. Thanks for the update! Cheers, Tom -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly 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. >From address@hidden Thu Oct 13 08:39:49 2005 Hi Tom, re: what revision of the kernel are you running >I am running this kernel now: >Linux 2.6.13-1.1526_FC4smp #1 SMP Wed Sep 28 19:28:24 EDT 2005 x86_64 >x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux >Everythings works flawlessly up to now (I am recompiling everything). >Thanks for your support, >Christian >UQAM