Re: [ferret_users] Announcing Ferret v6.3 for the Mac

[Evan Howell <evan.howell@xxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Ansley and the people behind the curtain that made this possible!

Everything installed very easily.

The only change that I had to make was within the $FER_DIR/bin/ferret_paths_bash_template file

line 48 change

export PATH="$PATH $FER_DIR/bin"

to

export PATH="$PATH:$FER_DIR/bin"

I had to add a colon between the $PATH and $FER_DIR/bin path entry.

Other than that it seems great with sample data sets that would cause the previous Mac version to segfault. :)

Thanks again!

Evan

On Jan 7, 2010, at 8:54 AM, Ansley Manke wrote:

> Hi All, At long last we have up-to-date executables for you! Because of the contributions of Ferret colleagues, we are able to release version 6.3 for the intel-based Macs; Leopard and Snow Leopard. (OSX-10.5 and OSX-10.6).
> 
> We have also have a Ferret version 6.4 executable for the PowerMac - OSX-4.
> 
> The powermac version does not include external functions (simply for lack of time to work on building them). This should not be a major drawback most functions developed as external functions are now linked into the Ferret executable.
> 
> Please try installing the appropriate Ferret executable by following the installation instructions in the pages below and running the Finstall script. 
> Ferret for intel mac, Leopard/Snow Leopard:
> http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/static/Downloads/mac_intel_downloads.html
> 
> Ferret for powermac, Tiger:
> http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/static/Downloads/mac_4_downloads.html
> 
> -Ansley and the Ferret team
>