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Hi Hsie, I have been looking at your McIDAS setup on stratus, and I have a a question: It looks like your existing setup tries to use a runtime link approach (like the LDM) to "point" at the version of McIDAS that you want to use. For instance: <as 'mcidas' on stratus> cd ~mcidas ls -alt -rw------- 1 mcidas unidata 966 Sep 22 11:53 .history -rwxr-xr-x 1 mcidas unidata 2899 Sep 22 11:49 .cshrc -rw-rw-r-- 1 mcidas unidata 389 Sep 22 10:08 cshrc.solarisx86_64 drwxrwxr-x 21 mcidas unidata 1024 Sep 22 09:50 . lrwxrwxrwx 1 mcidas unidata 11 Sep 22 09:50 solaris -> solaris2007 drwxr-xr-x 18 mcidas unidata 512 Sep 22 09:38 mcidas2009 drwxrwxr-x 2 mcidas unidata 512 Sep 22 09:37 admin -rw-rw-r-- 1 mcidas unidata 1601 Sep 22 09:31 README drwxrwxr-x 13 mcidas unidata 512 Sep 22 09:27 solaris2009 drwx------ 2 mcidas unidata 512 Sep 21 14:53 .mctmp -rw------- 1 mcidas unidata 0 Sep 21 11:59 .mysql_history dr-xr-xr-x 6 root root 6 Sep 21 08:52 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 mcidas unidata 11 May 13 17:14 bin -> solaris/bin lrwxrwxrwx 1 mcidas unidata 16 May 13 17:14 logs -> solaris/workdata lrwxrwxrwx 1 mcidas unidata 9 May 13 17:14 data -> /wrk/data ... If you want to keep using this approach, I think a couple of changes are needed: - change the definition of 'mcidas_home' in ~mcidas/.cshrc: change: set mcidas_home = /home/mcidas/${OSTYPE} to: set version = 2009 set mcidas_home = /home/mcidas/${OSTYPE}${version} - resource the .cshrc settings so that McINST_ROOT is correctly defined - clobber the current build of McIDAS v2009 cd ~mcidas/mcidas2009/src make clobber - have 'make' create the needed output directory structure: make rootdirs - rebuild the distribution from scratch make all - when switching to the new distribution, you would have to change the runtime link: change: solaris -> solaris2007 to: solaris -> solaris2009 Do you agree with my analysis? Cheers, Tom -- **************************************************************************** Unidata User Support UCAR Unidata Program (303) 497-8642 P.O. Box 3000 address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unidata HomePage http://www.unidata.ucar.edu **************************************************************************** Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: JRK-547142 Department: Support McIDAS Priority: Normal Status: Open