Re: [ferret_users] Re: Ferret Update to v6.82

[Karl Smith <karl.smith@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Szymon,

Those look like the correct font files for the RHEL6-64bit installation.  When using Finstall to install the ferret executables (and other OS-dependent files, such as these font files), the Finstall program renames existing files, appending .old, instead of just clobbering the old files.

I am not quite sure why these font data files are OS dependent, but it might be that Fedora 16  needs different font data files from RHEL6.  Not sure why that would be, but your results seem to be indicating this since the ferret program is otherwise running for you.  I see two options:

(1) See if the old fonts will work for you: move the new font files out of the way (make a new directory and move them there), then rename all the .old font files back to their original names.  Then test ferret using the old font files by trying to make any simple plot ("go ptest").

(2) Build the font files in $FER_DIR/bin/build_fonts/unix.  To do this you will need to modify the Makefile in that directory to remove the "include ../../../site_specific.mk" and "include ../../../platform_specific.mk.$(BUILDTYPE)".  Your will need to defined the environment variables F77 (as 'gfortran') and PLOTFONTS as the directory to contain the build fonts.  (You can just use the current definition, but again move the existing font files out of the way if you want to keep them.)  Then run 
'make clean' (just to make sure no old 'binary' executable or data files are in this build directory), 
'make' (build the 'binary' executable and then make all the font data files), and 
'make install' (copies the font data files to $PLOTFONTS).
Again, test ferret using these fonts.

-- Karl

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Szymon Roziewski <szymon.roziewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PS

And the variable PLOTFONTS
is like that
[szymon@szymon cstline]$ printenv PLOTFONTS
/usr/local/ferret/ppl/fonts

One can find there a lot of fonts with the previous versions:

fnt01.chr      fnt04.chr      fnt07.chr      fnt10.chr      fnt13.chr      fnt16.chr      fnt19.chr      fnt22.sym      fnt25.sym      fnt28.sym      fnt31.chr      fondat.dat
fnt01.chr.old  fnt04.chr.old  fnt07.chr.old  fnt10.chr.old  fnt13.chr.old  fnt16.chr.old  fnt19.chr.old  fnt22.sym.old  fnt25.sym.old  fnt28.sym.old  fnt31.chr.old  fondat.dat.old
fnt02.chr      fnt05.chr      fnt08.chr      fnt11.chr      fnt14.chr      fnt17.chr      fnt20.sym      fnt23.sym      fnt26.sym      fnt29.sym      fnt32.chr
fnt02.chr.old  fnt05.chr.old  fnt08.chr.old  fnt11.chr.old  fnt14.chr.old  fnt17.chr.old  fnt20.sym.old  fnt23.sym.old  fnt26.sym.old  fnt29.sym.old  fnt32.chr.old
fnt03.chr      fnt06.chr      fnt09.chr      fnt12.chr      fnt15.chr      fnt18.chr      fnt21.sym      fnt24.sym      fnt27.sym      fnt30.sym      fnt33.sym
fnt03.chr.old  fnt06.chr.old  fnt09.chr.old  fnt12.chr.old  fnt15.chr.old  fnt18.chr.old  fnt21.sym.old  fnt24.sym.old  fnt27.sym.old  fnt30.sym.old  fnt33.sym.old


Best wishes,
Szymon Roziewski

-- 
Karl M. Smith, Ph.D.
JISAO Univ. Wash. and TMAP/PMEL NOAA
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