Grads 1.9b4 install from source
Eric DeWeaver
deweaver at AOS.WISC.EDU
Thu Jun 30 12:09:09 EDT 2005
Hi Oliver,
Sorry, I think I my SUPPLIBS was inaccurate. I suggested
SUPPLIBS=/usr/local/udunits-1.11.7/include/udunits.h
but probably it should be
SUPPLIBS=/usr/local/udunits-1.11.7
i.e. configure automatically looks for include and lib
underneath SUPPLIBS, in which case the new supplibs might
be just /usr/local. I'm not really sure you need supplibs
if libudunits.a is in a standard place like /usr/local/lib.
Another suggestion: use option ----enable-dyn-supplibs with
configure. Right now you have readline disabled, which probably
means that you won't have command line history. Probably you
have readline on your system as a shared library, and you
can try making that available to the build with
--enable-dyn-supplibs.
I can also see from the output that you don't have libz. I got
libz from DODS-packages-3.4.4.tar.gz, which I got from
www.opendap.org.
I should point out that the grads executables I build are
imperfect: gxeps always crashes with a segfault, 'q time' gives
a strange result when called from inside a script, I haven't been
able to build gradsdods (problems finding/building libwww.a),
probably other problems I haven't found yet.
An alternative would be to get the fedora binaries for grads1.8sl11.
I use the fedora version under suse 9.1 and it works ok. You
can get the binaries by ftp to grads.iges.org and getting the file
/grads/1.8/GrADS1.8SL11.Fedora.tar.gz. The ftp site may also
have some useful library stuff if you look around in it.
Good luck,
Eric
On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Oliver König wrote:
> Hello Eric,
> thanks for your suggestion. This is what I did:
>
> buran:/usr/ # tar xvfz udunits-1.11.7.tar.Z
> buran:/usr/ # cd udunits-1.11.7/
> buran:/usr/udunits-1.11.7 # mv bin/ /usr/local/bin
> buran:/usr/udunits-1.11.7 # mv etc/ /usr/local/etc/
> buran:/usr/udunits-1.11.7 # mv include/ /usr/local/include
> buran:/usr/udunits-1.11.7 # mv lib/ /usr/local/lib
> buran:/usr/udunits-1.11.7 # mv man/ /usr/local/man
> buran:/usr/udunits-1.11.7 # cd /opt
> buran:/opt # tar xvfz grads-src-1.9b4.tar.gz
> buran:/opt # ln -s grads-1.9b4 grads
> buran:/opt # cd grads
> buran:/opt/grads # ./configure --with-readline --with-printim --with-nc
> --with-dods --with-hdf
> [..]
> Checking which GrADS binaries can be built
> ------------------------------------
> checking udunits.h usability... yes
> checking udunits.h presence... yes
> checking for udunits.h... yes
> checking netcdf.h usability... yes
> checking netcdf.h presence... yes
> checking for netcdf.h... yes
> checking for libudunits.a in supplibs... no
> - gradsnc (plain netCDF) build disabled
>
> checking for udunits.h... (cached) yes
> checking for netcdf.h... (cached) yes
> checking for libz.a in supplibs... no
> - gradshdf (HDF-SDS/netCDF) build disabled
>
> checking for udunits.h... (cached) yes
> checking for netcdf.h... (cached) yes
> checking for libz.a in supplibs... no
> - gradsdods (OPeNDAP/netCDF) build disabled
>
> +=========================================================================+
> GrADS 1.9b4 : Built Thu Jun 30 14:27:51 CEST 2005 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
> +=========================================================================+
>
> +----------------------------------+
> | |
> | Configuration Summary |
> | |
> | - readline disabled |
> | - printim disabled |
> | - GUI disabled |
> | + LATS enabled |
> | - wi disabled (default) |
> | |
> | Build Summary |
> | |
> | + gradsc (classic) enabled |
> | - gradsnc (netCDF) disabled |
> | - gradshdf (HDF-SDS) disabled |
> | - gradsdods (OPeNDAP) disabled |
> | |
> | - Dynamic linking disabled |
> | |
> +----------------------------------+
>
> So I am one step further because grads now finds the libudunits stuff except
> for libudunits.a in supplibs.
> buran:/opt/grads # locate libudunits.a
> /usr/local/lib/libudunits.a
>
> So I give it another try similar to what you suggested:
> buran:/opt/grads # SUPPLIBS=/usr/local/lib/libudunits.a ./configure
> --with-readline --with-printim --with-nc --with-dods --with-hdf
> [..]
> checking udunits.h usability... no
> checking udunits.h presence... no
> checking for udunits.h... no
> - gradsnc (plain netCDF) build disabled
>
> Now, grads doesn't find any udunits stuff at all.
>
> Please help! Thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>
> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 22:58, Eric DeWeaver wrote:
> > Hi Oliver,
> >
> > I'm no expert no building grads, but here's a suggestion:
> >
> > SUPPLIBS=/usr/local/udunits-1.11.7/include/udunits.h ./configure
> >
> > I think options like 'nc' and 'printim' are enabled by default, you
> > probably don't need to enable them explicitly.
> >
> > Building grads was a pretty big challenge for me, and it still
> > doesn't work quite right. I hope things go smoothly for you after
> > you resolve the udunits thing.
> >
> > Good luck,
> >
> > Eric
> >
> > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Oliver König wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I am trying to install Grads 1.9b4 from source. I have got a Pentium M
> > > 1.5 GHz and 512 MB RAM running Suse Linux 9.2. This is what I did:
> > >
> > >
> > > buran:/usr/local # tar xvfz udunits-1.11.7.tar.Z
> > > buran:/usr/local # cd /opt/
> > > buran:/opt # wget ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/1.9/grads-src-1.9b4.tar.gz
> > > buran:/opt # tar xvfz grads-src-1.9b4.tar.gz
> > > buran:/opt # cd /opt/grads1.9b4
> > > buran:/opt/grads-1.9b4 # ./configure --with-readline --with-printim
> > > --with-nc --with-dods --with-hdf
> > > [..]
> > > Checking which GrADS binaries can be built
> > > ------------------------------------
> > > checking udunits.h usability... no
> > > checking udunits.h presence... no
> > > checking for udunits.h... no
> > > - gradsnc (plain netCDF) build disabled
> > >
> > > checking for udunits.h... (cached) no
> > > - gradshdf (HDF-SDS/netCDF) build disabled
> > >
> > > checking for udunits.h... (cached) no
> > > - gradsdods (OPeNDAP/netCDF) build disabled
> > >
> > >
> > > +========================================================================
> > >=+ GrADS 1.9b4 : Built Wed Jun 29 18:40:19 CEST 2005 for i686-pc-linux-gnu
> > > +========================================================================
> > >=+
> > >
> > > +----------------------------------+
> > >
> > > | Configuration Summary |
> > > |
> > > | - readline disabled |
> > > | - printim disabled |
> > > | - GUI disabled |
> > > | + LATS enabled |
> > > | - wi disabled (default) |
> > > |
> > > | Build Summary |
> > > |
> > > | + gradsc (classic) enabled |
> > > | - gradsnc (netCDF) disabled |
> > > | - gradshdf (HDF-SDS) disabled |
> > > | - gradsdods (OPeNDAP) disabled |
> > > |
> > > | - Dynamic linking disabled |
> > >
> > > +----------------------------------+
> > > configure: creating src/VERSION
> > > configure: creating src/buildinfo.h
> > > configure: creating ./config.status
> > > config.status: creating Makefile
> > > config.status: creating src/Makefile
> > > config.status: creating src/config.h
> > > config.status: src/config.h is unchanged
> > >
> > > Run 'make && make install' to build GrADS.
> > > Executables will be installed to bin/ in current dir, unless prefix was
> > > specified.
> > >
> > > buran:/usr/local # locate udunits.h
> > > /usr/local/udunits-1.11.7/include/udunits.h
> > >
> > > What doesn't Grads find udunits.h? What is going wrong? How can I fix
> > > this?
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Oliver König
> > >
> > > Windfinder.com
> > > Knorrstr. 24 Hinterhaus
> > > 24106 Kiel
> > > Germany
> > > phone +49 431-8008643
> > > VoIP +49 1801-7775558229
> > > fax +49 431-8008644
> > > Mobile +49 177-4933362
> > > oliver at windfinder.com
> > > www.windfinder.com
>
> --
> Oliver König
>
> Windfinder.com
> Knorrstr. 24 Hinterhaus
> 24106 Kiel
> Germany
> phone +49 431-8008643
> VoIP +49 1801-7775558229
> fax +49 431-8008644
> Mobile +49 177-4933362
> oliver at windfinder.com
> www.windfinder.com
>
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