20010125: McIDAS-X Build Problems

>From: Roger Paillet <address@hidden>
>Organization: Cal State LA
>Keywords: 200101251907.f0PJ7fX27567 McIDAS-X Solaris SPARC gcc/f2c

Roger,

>I am a student of Dr. Hong-lie Qiu at California State
>University, Los Angeles and I am trying to install
>McIDAS7.7 on a Sun Ultra 10 with Solaris 8. I'm using
>gcc/f2c. I'm having a problem, I believe, with f2c/gcc
>because of the -s : strip option. I'm using gcc-2.95.1
>and I believe that my copy of f2c is good. Here is the
>output from the makelog and build. What do you think?

'strip' gets installed in the /usr/ccs/bin directory on Solaris
systems, but it may not get installed if you did a minimal development
installation.

The first thing to check is if 'strip' can be found in its "usual" place:

ls -lat /usr/ccs/bin/strip

If it is there, the error you show below is telling us that /usr/ccs/bin
is not in your PATH.  You should then edit your shell definition file
(i.e., .cshrc if you use the C shell; .profile for the Bourne shell; 
or .profile or .kshrc if you use the Korn shell) and add this directory
to your PATH definition.  Remember that after changing the shell definition
file, you need to make the changes active (source .cshrc for C shell users;
. .profile for Bourne shell users; . .profile or . .kshrc for Korn shell
users).

If it is not there, then you have two choices:

o do a development installation for Solaris
o edit ~mcidas/mcidas7.7/src/makefile and change:

STRIP           = -s
# STRIP         =

to:

# STRIP           = -s
STRIP         =

After either of these two, you can restart your build:

cd mcidas7.7/src
make all

>Thanks, 
>Roger  
>
>
>##########################################
>Thu Jan 25 10:45:02 PST 2001: BUILD BEGIN
>##########################################
>
>./mccomp -O -gcc -I. -I../netcdf/libsrc -I../jpeg
>-I../zlib -c convdlmc.c
>rm -f convdlmc.o
>gcc -c -O -I. -I../netcdf/libsrc -I../jpeg -I../zlib
>-I/usr/dt/include -I/usr/op
>enwin/include convdlmc.c
>compile convdlmc.c:             done
>./mccomp -O -gcc -I. -I../netcdf/libsrc -I../jpeg
>-I../zlib -c convdlmf.f
>rm -f convdlmf.o
>mcfc -c -O -I. -I../netcdf/libsrc -I../jpeg -I../zlib
>-I/usr/dt/include -I/usr/o
>penwin/include convdlmf.f
>convdlmf.f:
>   convdlm:
>   nchars:
>   len_trim:
>compile convdlmf.f:             done
>./mccomp -O -s -gcc -o convdlm convdlmc.o convdlmf.o
>mcfc -s -O -o convdlm convdlmc.o convdlmf.o
>-R/usr/dt/lib -L/usr/dt/lib -R/usr/o
>penwin/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -R/opt/SUNWspro/lib
>-L/opt/SUNWspro/lib -lgen -lso
>cket -lnsl -lm
>./mcfc: strip: not found
>link    convdlm:                FAILED
>
>
>geoserver% make all
>cd ../netcdf && \
>                 sh configure --prefix=/space/mcidas/
>creating cache ./config.cache
>checking for m4... no
>checking for gm4... no
>checking user-defined C compiler "/bin/gcc"
>checking C compiler... works
>checking how to make dependencies... cc -xM
>configure: warning: Empty CXX variable
>configure: warning: The C++ interface will not be
>built
>checking how to run the C preprocessor... /bin/gcc -E
>checking user-defined Fortran compiler
>"/space/mcidas/mcidas7.7/src/mcfc"... configure:
>warning: /space/mcidas/mcidas7.7/src/mcfc failed to
>compile test program
>configure: warning: The Fortran interface will not be
>built
>checking for Fortran .F compiler... 
>checking for Fortran preprocessor... /bin/gcc -E
>
>
>
>
>##########################################
>Thu Jan 25 10:45:02 PST 2001: BUILD BEGIN
>##########################################
>
>compile convdlmc.c:             done
>compile convdlmf.f:             done
>link    convdlm:                FAILED (See
>'/space/mcidas/mcidas7.7/src/makelog' for details.)
>
>make: *** [convdlm] Error 1

Tom Yoksas