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Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Steve Ochani wrote: > > Hello all, > > I am trying to build ldm 5.1.4 on a Redhat Linux 7.2 system. I came across > the makewhatis > problem that was discussed before (in April i guess) > > I did a search through the archives and found email from Anne Wilson > recommending to edit > the Makefile and take out a few lines. > > Email archive at > > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/ldm/4293 > > Should I still do this or is there another solution? > > Thanks > Hi Steve, Although ldm 5.1.4 fixed the compilation problems that appeared with Redhat 7.x, the 'makewhatis' problem slipped through the cracks. That problem is that makewhatis is now only executable by root. Here is a description of the security risk: http://xforce.iss.net/alerts/advise56.php. makewhatis simply makes the 'whatis' file, used by 'man -k' or 'apropos' when looking for man pages relevant to a particular keyword. You do not need this to run the ldm. Since this is the last thing done under 'make install', your installation should be good even if this last command did not complete succesfully. If you would like to have the 'whatis' file, you can execute the command directly from the command line as root, i.e., run '/usr/sbin/makewhatis /usr/local/ldm/man'. Anne -- *************************************************** Anne Wilson UCAR Unidata Program anne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx P.O. Box 3000 Boulder, CO 80307 ---------------------------------------------------- Unidata WWW server http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ ****************************************************
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