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19990923: gempak and RH LINUX 6.0


Mace,

Red Hat 6.0 comes with glibc 2.1 which will not link against the Motif 2.1
library- so I have built all the standard Gempak programs under 6.0, and
have the GUI programs from 5.2 until someone comes out with a compatible
Motif distribution. Unless you have Motif, you can't build the GUI
programs (Garp, NSAT, NWX, NTRANS, NSHARP) anyhow.

The statndard programs compiled under 5.2 seem to have problems with
the message queues under 6.0, so the old binaries aren't compatible with
6.0. Since the GUI programs don't use the message queues, those binaries
are fine.

The Gempak Linux binary distribution is found under
~gbuddy/nawips-5.4/binary/linux

The tarfile gempak5.4_pl12_linux.tar.gz contains the 5.2 binaries as well
as all tables and mapfiles used by gempak. 

Under this directory you will find: redhat6.0/linux60_progs.tar.gz
which contains the executables for RedHat 6.0.

So, for your 6.0 system, download and unpack the first tarfile,
then download and unpack the second tarfile so the 6.0 executables
will overwrite those in the bin/linux subdirectory.

Tha should be it.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, Mace Bentley wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> Hello, I am early in the process of installing the LDM and NAWIPS suite of 
> products on a server running RedHat 6.0 and have heard through the
> grapevine that the GEMPAK (and LDM for that matter) installs will not
> work properly because of a compiler switch from true gcc compilers to
> gsrc versions in LINUX 6.0.  I was told that I would need to use the gcc
> compilers from RH LINUX 5.2. I was planning on doing a binary
> installation and saw through the archives that a linux 6.0 version of
> gempak was made. Are there any problems that you know of?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Dr. Mace Bentley
> Kentucky Climate Center
> Western Kentucky University
>