Dummies guide for compiling GrADS?

[Stephanie Mayfield]

Greetings,

I've reviewed the website, the user group and some of the files that
came in the GrADS download and I haven't found what I'm looking for.
I'd like to see a "Dummies guide" for compiling GrADS.  Does such a
thing exist?

I'll give you the specs of what I'm trying to do:

 - RHE4
 - grads 1.9b4 ( currently trying the *linuxRHE3*
<ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/1.9/grads-1.9b4-linuxRHE3.tar.gz> (full)
version)
 - gcc 3.4.6

I'm trying to get the basic grads to compile for starters.   I plan on
adding a module, therefore the pre-compiled binaries aren't going to
help me much.

A few of my questions:
1) The download page mentions the separate data file.  This appears to
be packaged with the full download in the data subdirectory so does
anything special need to be done there?
2) Are there libraries that need to be installed?  Are these in the
supplemental files?  Where are they supposed to go?  Which version of
the supplemental libraries is closest to RHE4?  I'm guessing 1.9b1?

I am a programmer but I haven't done much in C/C++.  I've got very
limited experience with GrADS.  So please use small words!

Thanks in advance!
Steph