Re: 20051130: MciDAS-X 2005...new and improved with GCC 4.02-8?

Hi Tom,

> Well, I was awake last night, so I finished the new McIDAS distribution
> and built it on weather, weather2, and weather3.  I finished the
> installation on weather and weather2 but not on weather3.  I rebuilt
> the v2005 distributions from scratch:
>
> One of the files that got updated in the addendum was ADDEIMAGE.CORE.
> On weather you had modified this file to add load definitions for the
> NASADATA dataset.  Before the upgrade (actually the last time I was on
> weather), I copied your modified version of ADDEIMAGE.CORE to the
> ~mcidas/workdata directory (so your modifications would not be lost).

Thank you!!!! I forgot about that...

> Since one of the modifications I made to ADDEIMAGE.CORE was the
> addition of the publically accessible PUB dataset from SATEPS ADDE
> server, and since this is imagery data that you _will_ want to be
> accessing (trust me, the server has GOES-East/West, METEOSAT-7, and
> MTSAT imagery), you should now do the following:

OK, I will do that when I get time later today.

> I need to do some work on the MCGUI that will better handle site
> definitions like the one you have made.  This will need to wait for the
> next addendum, however.

Good, since it is a bit cumbersome to do.

> The problem you are seeing with 'ar' is appearing in all of the latest
> Linux and FreeBSD distributions I have seen (e.g., SuSE, Slackware,
> Mandriva; FreeBSD 5.4).  I am assuming that it is a fundamental bug in
> the open source for 'ar'.  The interesting thing is that slow(er)
> machines running the new versions of Linux do not exhibit the problem.
> Anyway, the builds on weather, weather[23] went without a hiccup.  I
> have also verified that my "fix" (hack/workaround) works well on
> FreeBSD 5.4.

Good.

> One last thing.  Do you now have your Gbps I2 connection?  I noticed
> that the downloads for the McIDAS distribution were much faster than
> the last time I tried, but were still not screamingly fast (300 KB/s
> which is about the same as I get at home!).

No, not yet. The improvement was due to:

1. A bad network switch at my building was replaced
2. Network troublemakers got the boot.

Last I heard, 12/1 was the day of turning it on. I emailed the network 
admin doing this but he never got back to me today. We shall see...
that may be a good sign...

> (NOTE: I put the new version of the full distribution in the ~mcidas
> directory on weather3 and deleted the old v2005 distributions from
> weather/weather2).

Fantastic. Thank you so much, Tom. Now to play around and see what you 
have done!!! Will let you know that I think and see after I play around 
with it.

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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