[Met_help] METv2 Installation Problem

[John Halley Gotway]

Keyur,

It looks like the compiler is having problems with the include files.  Every once in a while, we get an email from a user with these types of problems.  Basically, it means that you'll need to edit
some of the MET source files and add in some more include files.  MET compiles fine on most of the machines, but sometimes the include files are set up slightly differently.  Am I'm not exactly sure why.

Here's what I'd suggest doing...
(1) The error you're seeing is coming from: "METv2.0/lib/vx_cal/time_strings.cc", and it can't find the definition for the "sprintf" function.
(2) Go into the include directory for your compiler and locate the file containing "sprintf".  Something like this:
   grep sprintf /usr/include/*.h
(3) It will likely be located in a file named "stdio.h".  So edit the file "METv2.0/lib/vx_cal/time_strings.cc" by adding this line to the include section:
   #include <stdio.h>
(4) Try recompiling.

It's likely that you'll find more similar types of problems.  Just go through the same process to add more include files.  As you go through, please keep a list of the changes you had to make to get
it to compile.

I really apologize for this inconvenience.  Hopefully, we can resolve these include file issues for the next release.  Please send me the list of changes you had to make, and I'll be sure to add them
in to the development version of the code.

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway
met_help at ucar.edu


Keyur Patel wrote:
> John,
> 
> I am trying to install METv2.0() on a Linux 2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i686.PAE SMP
> i686 GNU/Linux machine. I have already compiled and installed the required
> libraries and packages successfully in a specific library, all got installed
> successfully.
> 
> The only problem I encountered was when I started building MET with : make
>> & make.log&
> I did edit the Makefile(for GNU Linux), I have attached it with this mail
> along with the error logs encountered.
> 
> I also tried to buid MET with
> MET-patch<http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/support/known_issues/METv2.0/patches/METv2.0_patches_20091223.tar.gz>provided
> on the site, and had no luck compiling with it too.
> Awaiting a suitable response from you.
>