[ncarg-talk] Trying to compile old code

[Orion Poplawski]

On 10/03/2014 10:33 AM, Raymond D Wright wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would appreciate some help, very much. I am trying to run the
> meteorological model "MM5" (now superseded by WRF), because I ran it
> some years ago and I want to use it now to generate some output, rather
> than get to grips with a new model, just yet.
>
> So: MM5 has an initial processor called "TERRAIN" that needs to be
> compiled with the ncarg library and the X11 library, to generate some
> plots using ncar graphics. Unfortunately, libX11.a is not available in
> recent Linux releases. I am using "Scientific Linux 6", which is,
> basically, Red Hat Linux. It does not have libX11.a, but it does have
> the dynamic libraries.
>
> How do I get it to compile with dynamic libraries, if that's possible at
> all?

Shouldn't require anything special.  I suspect you do not have 
libX11-devel installed which provides the libX11.so link required for 
compilation.


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