[Opengrads-devel] New Extensions module

[Arlindo da S. <da...@al...>]

All,

  I have introduced a new convenience CVS module for working with the
opengrads extensions. The self contained "Extensions" module can be checked
out and built with these commands:

% gacvs co -P Extensions  (notice capital "E")
% cd Extensions
% make install

Except for building gxyat, all you need to have around is gcc, gfortrran and
GNU make in your path. No need to have GrADS or the supplibs around if all
you want to do is to work on extensions. (Do not worry if gxyat does not
build, you need cairo for that, and cairo is available with the supplibs, or
it may be available with your Linux distribution or on darwin ports/fink.)
However, make sure the Extensions version corresponds to the grads version
being used. You can always specify a tag when checking out with the -r
option. To see a list of available tags check out from the trunk as
indicated above and issue the "cvs stat" command:

% cd Extensions
% cvs stat -v GNUmakefile

This is particularly important when COLA introduces changes in the data
structures defined in "grads.h". I heard that a big change is due soon.
Perhaps Jennifer would like to give us the heads up about what is coming up.

     Arlindo

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Arlindo da Silva
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