[Met_help] MET installation problem

[John Halley Gotway]

Litta,

Great, I'm glad someone else it trying to run MET on an IBM.  It seems that most users tend to run it on some version of LINUX.

I'm guessing the issue here is the version of "make" that you're using.  The standard "make" on IBM in not GNU Make.  The MET Makefiles are set up to make use of GNU Make, which we list as a
requirement in section 2.4 of the MET User's Guide:
   http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/docs/users_guide/MET_Users_Guide_v2.0_rev2.pdf

I've compiled MET on NCAR's IBM machine, bluefire.  And GNU Make is available on bluefire in /usr/local/bin/gmake.  So instead of typing "make" in the top-level MET directory, I type "gmake", and it
works.  Take a look and see if gmake is available on your system.  If not, I'd suggest asking your system's administrator for assistance.

Once you do get MET to compile, please be sure to run the test scripts in the "scripts" directory.  Take a look at the output to see if any of the test scripts failed.

Hope that helps,
John Halley Gotway
johnhg at ucar.edu

Litta A J wrote:
> Dear sir,
> 
>  I am trying to install METv2.0 in IBM-AIX machine. For that I have
> installed BUFRLIB, netcdf-3.6.2, gsl-1.11 and libf2c. I have set the paths
> in Makefile of MET. But i am getting the following error.
> 
> thunder>make
> "Makefile", line 191: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 193: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 194: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 196: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 197: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 199: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 200: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 202: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 203: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 205: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 206: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 208: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 209: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 211: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 212: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 214: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 215: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 217: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 218: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> "Makefile", line 220: make: 1254-055 Dependency line needs colon or double
> colon operator.
> make: 1254-058 Fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue.
> thunder>
> 
> I am attaching my Makefile along with this mail... Please do needful...
> Looking forward to your reply
> 
> with best regards,
> Litta
> 
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> Ms. Litta A. J
> Project Scientist,
> Centre for Atmospheric Sciences,
> Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),Delhi,
> Hauz Khas,
> New Delhi - 110016
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