Hi Susan, re: > Ah Ha ^2! I read through what you did for him in the support > archives, but didn't catch that ldm-mcidas-2004 wasn't going to work > on Mac. Yea, the McIDAS/ldm-mcidas support for MacOS-X was marginal in 2004. > Thought if I started carefully from scratch I wouldn't run > into the same trouble. Good thought! But, it wouldn't have mattered. > (Also considered mailing him directly to see > if he'd slip me that one decoder) Also a good thought. Dave Dempsey of SFSU is a great guy and very approachable for things like this. Dave used to be a member of the Unidata Users Committee. > Yes I would love for you to try some magic. But don't laugh - it's > kind of in a mess with a lot of test stuff that hasn't been cleaned > up. ldm's account is /Users/ldm . machine is > flightrisk.meas.ncsu.edu , a G5 Xserve. OK. > I compiled LDM 6.4.6 on it but cheated and used GEMPAK 5.10.1 > binaries. There is nothing wrong with using binaries especially for packages like GEMPAK since it requires that one have Motif installed for linking purposes. > I think I will need to compile the current GEMPAK on it; > there are 5 decoders that crash. Interesting. Have you sent in an inquiry regarding this problem? If not, you should: address@hidden > Grabbing some FORTRAN's right now. This is not needed for the partial build of ldm-mcidas. Here is what I did: 1) download the 3.6.1 version of netCDF: <as 'ldm'> setenv CC gcc setenv CFLAGS -O setenv CPPFLAGS '-DNDEBUG -Df2cFortran' setenv CPP_LDM -I/Users/ldm/include setenv LD_LDM '-L/Users/ldm/lib -lldm' setenv CPP_MCIDAS /Users/mcidas/inc setenv LD_MCIDAS '-L/Users/mcidas/lib -lmcidas' setenv CPP_NETCDF=/Users/ldm/netcdf/include setenv LD_NETCDF '-L/Users/ldm/netcdf/lib -lnetcdf' setenv LD_X11 '-L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11' setenv FC /usr/bin/g77 Note that the definitions for CPP_MCIDAS, LD_MCIDAS, and FC point to non-existent things. cd ~ mkdir netcdf cd netcdf ftp ftp.unidata.ucar.edu <user> anonymous <pass> address@hidden cd pub/netcdf binary get netcdf-3.6.1.tar.gz quit tar xvzf netcdf-3.6.1.tar.gz cd netcdf-3.6.1/src ./configure make make install cd ~/netcdf ln -s netcdf3.6.1 runtime ln -s runtime/* . cd ~/ldm-mcidas/ldm-mcidas-2004/src ./configure make -- failure, but not to worry cd decode make pnga2area ./pnga2area <- just to make sure that it runs cp pnga2area ~/decoders So, you now have a 'pnga2area' decoder in your /Users/ldm/decoders directory. You should be able to quickly determine if this executable works for you... just setup your LDM to ingest any/all of the UNIWISC (aka MCIDAS), FNEXRAD, or NIMAGE feeds; use the pqact.gempak_xxxxx pattern-action files that specify decoding of the imagery using pnga2area; and stop/restart your LDM Please let me know if the decoder is working for you now. 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: PDS-980326 Department: Support ldm-mcidas Priority: Normal Status: Closed
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