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20010604: build/installation/operation problems by a new user

Lloyd,

Both link failures on missing elements from libraries are symptoms of bad
caching by the I/O system- eg "ar" returns, but the result has not been
written out to disk. The gemlib and cgemlib routines on your aix
will already have been built and added to the library....but if they
are missing later, the caching was not cleared. Go back to $NAWIPS
and run "make all" again. You should see routines that are missing get
compiled again and added to the archive again.

For color promblems under RH, try running from KDE if you aren't already.
Gnome seems to have toubles on some installations. If ntl fails,
then any attempt to display imagery will run into a similar fate.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User SUpport



On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Lloyd A Treinish wrote:

> I recently downloaded GEMPAK 5.6.C.1 and tried to build it on two systems.
> One system is running AIX 4.3.3 and the other is RH 7.0.  Both machine have
> far more than adequate resources for running the software (processor,
> memory, disk).  I am looking for some advice to address a few problems I
> uncovered.
> 
> Running csh after setting Gemenviron, I tried make all on both systems.
> For the RH system, it failed at first because I thought I had Motif stuff
> installed.  After getting the latest development rpm from motifzone
> (openmotif-2.1.30-5), it almost completed.  Gemplt did not completely
> build.  I got the following error -- /gempak/lib/linux/gpltdev.a: could not
> read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one.  Running ranlib
> and then make again, solved the problem.  Of course, I had to set the
> default visual to 8-bit pseudo-color to get any display programs to work...
> 
> On the RH system, I tried nsat via ntl.  When I went to load a GINI file
> from our NOAAport, nsat crashed with the following error:
> X Error of failed request:  BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window
> parameter)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  62 (X_CopyArea)
>   Resource id in failed request:  0x1800220
>   Serial number of failed request:  24
>   Current serial number in output stream:  45
> The data file is fine since I can read it with other software.  Further,
> when nsat is run directly, it works.  The X server is also ok since I run
> other software which works other than packages that require TrueColor or
> DirectColor visuals, GLX, etc.  When I tried to run garp, it indicated that
> the executable wasn't there.  When I tried nmap, it seg faults when I try
> to load a satellite or radar image.  However, radmap reads the nexrad data
> just fine.
> 
> On the AIX system, it seems the make rules are out of order.  For example,
> make stops when trying to build cvg in cgemlib (convcvg) because it needs
> entries from gemlib and syslib (specifically, er_lmsg, css_envr, ss_vers
> and cvq_nxtgnm).  However, neither library had been built yet.  I can
> provide the output file from make, if it would help.  Given the complexity
> of the "nested" Makefiles, I would rather not have to go through all of it
> fearing one change might break something else.  Is there an alternate
> makefile or distribution for AIX?
> 
> Thanks for any help that can be offered.
> 
>