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[McIDAS #WQW-520685]: Fedora

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  • Subject: [McIDAS #WQW-520685]: Fedora
  • Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 12:15:34 -0600
Hi Richard,

re:
> I saw your e-mail about McIDAS and Fedora Core 5.  I have tried McIDAS
> with Fedora Core 5, but it would not install.

Where did your build/install fail?

> Did you do anything
> special with the install of McIDAS, or maybe I didn't do something
> correct when I installed Fedora 5?

As you may know, Unidata distributes its own version of McIDAS.  In
that distribution, I had to correct a problem in the 'configure' scripts
for both Tcl and Tk included in the distribution.  If you are running
into the same problem that I did (which is a Tcl/Tk problem, not McIDAS
and not FC5), then you will need to do the following:

<as 'mcidas'>

cd ~mcidas/mcidas2005/tcl/unix

-- edit configure and remove the extraneous single quote mark after the
   '/etc/.relid'.  This error occurs twice in Tcl's configure script in
   lines that look like:

                system=MP-RAS-`awk '{print }' /etc/.relid`

   The extraneous (extra) single quote is just before the backquote after 
.relid.

cd ~mcidas/mcidas2006/tk/unix

-- edit configure and remove the extraneous single quote mark after the
   variable 'relid'.  This error occurs once in Tk's configure script
   in a line that looks like:

                system=MP-RAS-`awk '{print }' /etc/.relid`

   The extraneous (extra) single quote is just before the backquote after 
.relid.

cd ~mcidas/mcidas2005/src
make

NOTE: if you use the SSEC way of building McIDAS (running a script that unpacks 
the
distribution and then runs 'make'), your editing changes will be lost.  This is
why I explicitly show the CD to ~mcidas/mcidas2006/src and running 'make'.

I have been running Unidata McIDAS-X v2005 on Fedora Core 5 for about two 
months.
I run the same distribution under FC5 64-bit at work, and it works nicely also.
I have also built the newest SSEC McIDAS release, v2006, on FC5 _after_ making
the changes to Tcl and Tk's configure scripts as outlined above.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WQW-520685
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed