[gembud] GEMAPAK 10.5.4 under ubuntu Linux

Stonie Cooper stonie.cooper at planetarydata.com
Wed Jan 2 14:09:46 MST 2008 

Greg,

Ubuntu, at least on 7.10 desktop, has a broken open motif  
implementation, also.  The symptom can always be reproduced - if you  
go in through the nmap2, select a multiple menu'd product, display,  
then go back in to add a layer, the menu system will be then  
corrupt.  This is most evident with smaller screen sizes - i.e.  
1280x1024 or smaller.

I traced the error back through the code to the actual motif calls.

This is not specific to GEMPAK 10.5.4, but was apparent in the  
previous version.

I have not attempted the nmap2 interface with Ubuntu 6.06.1.

This symptom is not replicable across other *nix flavors.  Solaris,  
FreeBSD, Slackware, Gentoo, and RHEL/CentOS all work fine.  I have  
not tired the base of Ubuntu, Debian, to see if it is inherited from  
Debian.

This is only helpful in that it shows your problem is not necessarily  
local.  Unless you have a lot invested in your Ubuntu installation, I  
can only suggest a different flavor of *nix.

On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:37 AM, gregory.carbin at noaa.gov wrote:

> Happy New Year GEMBUDS!
>
> I have some puzzling issues to report with the latest install and
> compile of GEMPAK under
> ubuntu Linux. Nmap2 and the other Nprogs appear to compile fine using
> the settings given in an earlier message (below). However, nmap2  
> starts
> up with a long list of warnings similar to this:
>
> Warning:
>     Name: FilterText
>     Class: XmTextField
>     Character '\56' not supported in font.  Discarded.
>
> There are many more "characters" discarded but nmap2 does start up and
> appears normal and responsive. That is until I try to use the product
> generation tool (pgen) to place vgf
> text onto a blank map background. As soon as I click to place a text
> label on the map in nmap2 the entire application crashes with this  
> message:
>
> *** stack smashing detected ***: nmap2 terminated
>
> One of the nice things about nmap2 are the progen capabilities that
> allow the annotation of maps and plots. It would be nice if I could
> figure out what is causing this erratic response to trying to use the
> prodgen text tool in nmap2.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading!
>
> Greg Carbin
> NWS/Storm Prediction Center
> Norman, OK
>
>>
>> Going with a straight...
>> MOTIFLIBS = $(X11LIBDIR) -lXm
>> in Makeinc.linux_g77 seems to allow for compilation of the Nprogs
>> without complaint. I haven't fully tested all the programs yet but I
>> guess I have no reason not to expect success.
>>
>> Thanks again for the help!
>>
>> Greg Carbin
>> NWS/Storm Prediction Center
>> Norman, OK
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Steve Chiswell <chiz at unidata.ucar.edu>
>> Date: Monday, December 10, 2007 10:49 am
>> Subject: Re: [gembud] GEMAPAK 10.5.4 under ubuntu Linux
>>> Greg,
>>>
>>> You error shown is: "cannot find -lXmu"
>>>
>>> If you have the Xmu libraries on your system, then try
>> uncommenting
>>> the
>>> line for shareable Motif libraries in the Makinc file and comment
>> out> the
>>> static entry. The libXm.a has dependencies on libXmu but the static
>>> link may be making it difficult to resolve the dependencies in the
>>> correct order.
>>>
>>> Steve Chiswell
>>> Unidata User Support
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 00:00 -0600, gregory.carbin at noaa.gov wrote:
>>>> Hi GEMBUDS,
>>>>
>>>> After a number of tries with gfortran I finally got most of
>>> GEMPAK to
>>>> compile from source using g77 instead. The only apps that
>> failed to
>>>> compile are the following:
>>>>
>>>> make[5]: *** [nalarm] Error 1
>>>> make[5]: *** [ncolor] Error 1
>>>> make[5]: *** [nfax] Error 1
>>>> make[5]: *** [nmap2] Error 1
>>>> make[5]: *** [nsharp] Error 1
>>>> make[5]: *** [ntl] Error 1
>>>> make[5]: *** [ntrans] Error 1
>>>> make[5]: *** [nwx] Error 1
>>>> make[3]: *** [nmap_kiosk] Error 1
>>>> make[2]: *** [linux/garp] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> The problem seems to be related to the location of libXm.a and
>> files> > that are expected to be located in /usr/X11R6/lib/. These
>> are
>>> instead in
>>>> /usr/lib/. First I tried symbolically linking to the existing
>>> files but
>>>> that drew a complaint from the compiler that there were too
>> many
>>> links.> I tried copying over the files to /usr/X11R6/lib/ but
>> that
>>> didn't work
>>>> either. Finally, I searched the GEMBUD lists and found a mod to
>>>> Makeinc.linux_g77 that describes where the MOFTIFLIBS are in
>> more
>>> recent> Linux distros. That just gets me the following error when
>>> compiling> ncolor (for example):
>>>>
>>>> g77 -fno-second-underscore -
>>> I/home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/gempak/include> -
>>> I/home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/include -O    -o ncolor
>> ncolor.o\> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/ginitp_alt.o> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/gendp_alt.o> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/Nxmlib.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/gemlib.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/gplt.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/device.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/xwp.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/xw.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/ps.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/gn.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/gemlib.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/cgemlib.a> >
>> /home/gempak/GEMPAK5.10.4/os/linux/lib/gemlib.a \
>>>>                 -L/usr/lib /usr/lib/libXm.a -lXm -lXmu -lSM -
>> lICE
>>> -lXp
>>>> -lXext -L/usr/lib -lXt -lX11 -lm
>>>> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXmu
>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>> make: *** [ncolor] Error 1
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if anyone else has run into this problem and if you
>> know
>>> of an
>>>> easy fix?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for reading this.
>>>>
>>>> Greg Carbin
>>>> NWS/Storm Prediction Center
>>>> Norman, OK
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>>> Unidata
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