The build process for this year's HWRF implementation is very simple: cd sorc make make install If either command fails, something went wrong while building. If you want to delete compiler intermediate files to reduce the size of the sorc directory: make clean Be warned: if you do that, to recompile most of the components, you will have to rebuild the libraries (lib/sorc/*), WRF (hwrf_v3.4.0.fd) and WPS (hwrf_wps.fd).