[Met_help] [Fwd: MET FEEDBACK from Segayle Walford]

[John Halley Gotway]

Segayle,

I apologize for the delay in getting back to you.  Most of the MET support team was out of the office last week.

In the future, please direct these type of questions relating to compilation errors, runtime errors/bugs, and technical support to the email alias "met_help at ucar.edu".  We intended the online MET 
Feedback form to be used for comments and suggestions relating to the tools and techniques available in MET rather than technical support.

If you're receiving an error message about not being able to file "-lbufr", that means that the linker can't find the file "libbufr.a" in the directory you've specified in the Makefile for 
"BUFR_LIBS".  Please look in the directory you've specified for "BUFR_LIBS" in the Makefile for that file: libbufr.a.  If it's not in that directory, that's something we'll need to fix.  Please refer 
to section 2.6 of the MET User's Guide (METv1.0/doc/MET_Users_Guide.pdf) for instructions for building BUFRLIB.  You may also need to refer to section 2.9 for instructions on how to configure the 
Makefile when building MET.

Once you've built the file "libbufr.a", please make sure that the "BUFR_LIBS" parameter in the Makefile points to the directory containing it.

If you still experience trouble building MET, please do the following...
(1) Since "make -f Makefile_pgi >& make.log" doesn't appear to be working as we'd expect.  Just try renaming the file "Makefile_pgi" to "Makefile".  If you'd like to keep the original "Makefile" 
around, you could rename is to something like "Makefile_gnu".
(2) Execute a "make clean" in the top-level MET directory.
(3) Then attempt to remake MET with "make >& make.log".
(4) Please send the "Makefile" and the "make.log" files to me with a description of the problem you're experiencing.

Thanks and sorry again for the delay in getting back to you.

John Halley-Gotway
johnhg at ucar.edu



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: MET FEEDBACK from Segayle  Walford
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:10:15 -0600
From: MET.FEEDBACK at rap.ucar.edu
To: johnhg at ucar.edu, bullock at ucar.edu, lholland at ucar.edu, bgb at ucar.edu


First Name = Segayle
Last Name = Walford
Institution = Howard University
Email = Walford02 at hotmail.com
MET Feedback = I was having problems compiling MET. I found the known problems site and I downloaded the new Makefile_pgi. When I did
make -f Makefile_pgi >& make.log

I kept getting an error saying
could not find -lbufr

It looks like it was using the Makefile and not the Makefile_pgi so I changed the paths in the Makefile also and tried to compile using the same command (Makefile_pgi) and I get a different error. I 
am not sure why it uses the Makefile instead of Makefile_pgi.

Anyway the new error is
make[3]: *** [vx_contable_stats.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [vx_contable_all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [libs] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

Not sure what this is