Hi Paul, Chiz sent your email along to me... re: > Hi, I'm partway through a McIDAS OS X 10.4 build. It first failed upon > the McIDAS-X installation when I failed to define where g77 was located. > That's fixed now, but now I find an error that I can't interpret. The > relevant part of the makelog is shown below (after fixing the $PATH so it > could find g77). Any help would be appreciated. g77 is the only Fortran > compiler I have right now, so F90 compilations are being skipped I gather. > Do I need to get g95 or other to complete the installation properly? You don't have to build McIDAS-X if all you want out of the ldm-mcidas package is a pnga2area binary for MacOS-X. See below for details. > Incidentally, I'm not interested in installing McIDAS for its own sake, Tis a pity ;-) > per se, but am interested in the png2area decoders so that I can process > imagery in gempak; I'm getting failures in decoding the MCIDAS files. > Otherwise, the gempak and LDM installs ended up going fine on this box > under OS X 10.4, by the way, thanks for the earlier tips. Here goes: Here is what to do for a partial build of ldm-mcidas: 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 can 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. I have a favor to ask: In the future, please remember to send questions to package-specific support departments. This helps us keep our inquiry tracking system working with a minimum of effort/time. To do this send emails to support-<department>@unidata.ucar.edu. For instance: ldm-mcidas inquiries get sent to address@hidden gempak inquiries get sent to address@hidden ldm inquiries get sent to address@hidden etc. The full list of departments and corresponding emails can be found on our web site at: Topic-Specific Email Addresses http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/support/topics.jsp Thanks in advance for helping us to minimize our user support overhead!! 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 ****************************************************************************
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