Re: Installing on CYGWIN: ncl gives bad address

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@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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