[ncl-install] Installing on CYGWIN: ncl gives bad address

[Mary Haley]

Hi Wing,

Thanks for the update. I'm cc-ing ncl-install on this so they know the issue
was resolved, and what the problem was.

--Mary

On May 30, 2012, at 1:15 AM, Wing-Le Chan wrote:

> Hi Mary,
> 
> Thank you for the quick reply.  I eventually managed to get NCL running.
> Basically I didn't install all the recommended packages for cygwin.  A careless
> oversight.  I'm not sure which missing package(s) was responsible for
> the problem but I went through the list of packages at
> www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/cygwin.shtml.
> and installed the ones that weren't already installed.
> 
> The example ncl gsun01n.ncl now works.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Wing
> 
> 
> On 29/05/2012, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Wing,
>> 
>> Do you have the latest version of X/Cygwin installed? That is, did you
>> download the latest "setup.exe" and run it so that it updated all your
>> X/Cygwin system files?
>> 
>> Finally, can you type:
>> 
>>  ls -l /usr/local/bin/ncl
>> 
>> so I can see how large the "ncl" executable is?
>> 
>> I googled this message, and there was some mention of it (for programs other
>> than NCL), but I didn't see any real solutions.
>> A couple of people did mention that you may need to run the latest
>> "setup.exe", so this is what I suggest.
>> 
>> --Mary
>> 
>> On May 28, 2012, at 8:18 PM, Wing-Le Chan wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I've just tried to install NCL with Cygwin-X using
>>> ncl_ncarg-6.0.0.CYGWIN_NT-6.1_i686.tar.gz.
>>> However, I am not able to run ncl as I get the error message:
>>> 
>>> $ ncl
>>> bash: /usr/local/bin/ncl: Bad address
>>> 
>>> I'm not sure what's wrong.  I've followed the installation steps, ie
>>> specifying the path in .bashrc
>>> and checking the display environment (xeyes works).
>>> 
>>> I also ran ng4ex gsun01n, and no separate window opens - the program just
>>> finishes without doing
>>> anything.  I noticed the program tdpackdemo.exe inside /usr/local/bin and
>>> this seems to
>>> run ok with a separate window opening, showing a 3-D plot.
>>> 
>>> Any help would be appreciated.  Thank you.
>>> 
>>> Wing
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