Build Grads with dods 1.9.0-rc1 on Suse 10.3

[Christian Marquardt]

Hello,

I ran into the same problem when trying to build the supplibs (both
2.0.0 and 2.0.1) myself. I eventually found out
that the the build of udunits failed because the top level GNUMakefile does a

   $(MAKE) -e install

for the undunits library (and a few others as well). Removing the -e
helped; it then builds perfectly well with gcc
4.2.1 which is the default compiler on Suse 10.3. As far as I
understand, the -e causes (g)make to overwrite
variables in sub-Makefiles with those from the environment. My guess
(although I haven't tracked that down
completely) is that this requires that all variables set in the
Makefile must also be set correctly in the environment;
and the build may fail if that is not the case.

I have actually removed the -e switches from all install targets and
had no problems in building the supplementary
libraries at all. To be honest, I wonder why the -e switch is there at
all? After all, one relies on automake/autoconf
in the various libraries to sort these settings out. Why would one
want to forcefully overwrite them afterwards? The
GNU make documentation also mentions that the use of -e is not
recommended anyway. May I suggest to take it
out of the top level Makefile?

Christian.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Steven Weiss <sweiss at iafrica.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Hi Arlindo,
> >
> > It now seems to work.
>
> You mean, the standard i686 binaries for v1.9.0-rc1 work on SuSe 10.3?
>
> >
> >
> > Not sure why but it does.
>
> I am glad it does...
>
> >
> >
> > Maybe I got something from 1.8 in the PATH.
> > I also downloaded your SuSe precompiled and it work there as well. Only
> other thing is that I have a udunits.dat file in folder /dat directory and I
> see your compiled one doesnt.
> >
>
> The file "udunits.dat" should be found in "GADDIR"; make sure to set this
> environment variable.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Another issue (which I can live with) is that the script I wrote is not
> being picked up in the GDSCRP path i.e. /lib. I have to run script with full
> path to it.
> >
>
> The correct name of the environment variable is "GASCRP".
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks again! Sorry for the bother. I wish I could explain how this is now
> working.
> >
>
> I've been bitten by thinks like this in the past as well. Now I always do
> something like "./gradsdods" to be 100% sure of what I am executing.
>
> I'm cc'ing gradsusr for the record.
>
>  Good Luck with your work,
>
>
>
>        Arlindo
>
> --
> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu