Things are going well.

Just to be extra careful, I deleted my copy of CMAQ and reinstalled fresh from the tgzs. I'm following the instructions very carefully, using pgf, and everything seems to work. One serious annoyance is the 5-second wait pgf enforces on their demo compiler. It's really slowing down compile times, but at least it's working. I guess they need to motivate sales somehow...

I've successfuly built and run ICON, BCON and CCTM. Took me days to get this far without pgf.