UFS Medium-Range Weather (MRW) Practical Session Guide | Session 1: Set Up and Run the Model > 5. Build the model executable

This step builds ufs.exe in about 8 minutes: 

./case.build 

The last part of the output looks like:

Building case in directory /glade/scratch/$USER/ufs-mrweather-app-workflow.c96 ... 
Building atm with output to /glade/scratch/$USER/ufs-mrweather-app workflow.c96/bld/atm.bldlog.200930-094156 
ufsatm built in 484.297560 seconds 
Building ufs from  
/glade/p/ral/jntp/$USER/my_ufs_sandbox/cime/../src/model/NEMS/cime/cime_config/bui ldexe with output to /glade/scratch/$USER/ufs-mrweather-app 
workflow.c96/bld/ufs.bldlog.200930-094156 
Time spent not building: 6.931199 sec 
Time spent building: 485.038825 sec 
MODEL BUILD HAS FINISHED SUCCESSFULLY

Once the build has finished successfully, check bld and run to see the results of the build process.