[gradsusr] GRADS1.9 OS X compiling problem --- big endian vs. small endian

[Malte Stuecker]

Dear Arlindo,

Thank you very much for the information, I wasn't aware of the opengrads
project. This helps a lot!
I briefly had a look at grads v2, however wasn't convinced. I use mainly
netcdf files with a no leap calender and the new version doesn't
automatically recognize the 365 day calender in contrast to grads 1.9.

Kind regards,
Malte

2011/2/11 Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at alum.mit.edu>

> On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Malte Stuecker <malte.stuecker at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem getting GRADS 1.9 running on my OS X 10.5 machine.
>> I first downloaded the pre-compiled darwin version from the website and
>> everything is running (incl. netcdf),
>> however, on the starting screen GRADS states "big endian". The OSX 10.5 is
>> small endian to my knowledge. I used the big endian grads version
>> on some data files and everything seems working. Should I be  concerned
>> that some data might be wrong because I am using a big endian software on a
>> small endian machine?
>>
>
> This is probably a powerpc binary. I would not worry about it (much). Just
> make sure that binary files have .ctl that explicitly states the endianess
> of the file through the OPTIONS keywork.
>
>
>> I also tried compiling the source files, however I can only get gradsc
>> compiled and not netcdf, opendap etc, even though the libraries are in the
>> standard directories.
>>
>
> Have you tried the opengrads binaries? There you will find an Intel Mac
> build:
>
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengrads/files/grads1/1.10.r2/
>
> The is version 1.10.r2.oga, which should have the same features of GrADS
> v1.9 with the addition of the opengrads extensions.  More information here:
>
>
> http://opengrads.org/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_the_OpenGrADS_Bundle
>
> Unless you have a good reason for using grADS v1.x, I strong recommend you
> upgrade to GrADS v2.
>
>    Arlindo
>
>
>
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> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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