Re: Installing ncarg-v4.0 on OpenSuse 11.3

Sorry about all the emails, here is an ncarg-talk reference to this, from the developer himself:

http://ngwww.ucar.edu/ncarg-talk/2004/0056.html

--Mary

On Feb 17, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Mary Haley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I tried to find some official history on the "mapchi.f" file, but no luck. It was
> removed in version 4.2.2 of NCAR Graphics, around September 2001.
>
> Internal routines that are not advertised to users have no guarantee that the
> names will remain the same with each version release.
>
> Jemma, my suggestion to you is to try migrating over to the new release, and
> send me any error messages that you might get when compiling with the
> new code. I'm guessing that if any other internal routines have changed,
> hopefully they've changed in name only, and it might be fairly straightforward
> to replace the old calls with the new ones.
>
> If it helps, here's a list of EZMAP files that were removed at the same time as mapchi.f:
>
> mapcem.f
> mapchi.f
> mapchm.f
> mapin1.f
> mapin2.f
> maptre.f
> maptrp.f
> mapvp.f
> mapvpd.f
> mapwnd.f
> mpdadp.f
> mpdasp.f
> mpgddp.f
> mpgdsp.f
> mpitve.f
> mprdcs.f
> mprdnm.f
> mprgdi.f
> mprggc.f
> mprgof.f
> mprgol.f
> mprgsc.f
> mprgsf.f
> mprgsq.f
>
> If you are calling any one of the "mapxxx" routines above and suddenly not finding it anymore, try replacing it with "mdpxxx".
> If you are worried about this, like that the calling sequence might have changed, then email me with any questions.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Feb 17, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Dennis Shea wrote:
>
>> FYI
>>
>> There are some historical error messages
>> that refer to MAPCHI
>>
>> MAPCHI - ERROR EXIT FROM GQPLCI
>> MAPCHI - ERROR EXIT FROM GQPMCI
>> MAPCHI - ERROR EXIT FROM GQTXCI
>>
>>
>> ====
>>
>> Further: on the WWW [ Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:48 pm ]
>>
>>
>> #if defined NCARG410 || defined NCARG422
>> CALL mapchi (2,0,idsh)
>> #else
>> CALL mdpchi (2,0,idsh)
>> #endif
>>
>>
>> On 2/17/11 11:34 AM, Mary Haley wrote:
>>> Hi Jemma,
>>>
>>> We make every effort to keep the user functions backwards compatible.
>>> With any routine that we've publicly documented, we rarely (if ever)
>>> change it or remove it. In fact, I'm not sure we've ever removed an
>>> advertied function, although we may have deprecated it.
>>>
>>> The routine you mentioned, "mapchi" is not one of our user-callable
>>> routines that I know of. Tell me how you're using it, and in the
>>> meantime I'll try to figure out what happened to it.
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>> On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Jemma Wu wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Mary,
>>>>
>>>> Thank you for your help.
>>>>
>>>> I have successfully installed NCARG 5.2.1 (compiled with ifort/icc) on
>>>> my new server. I tested one of our old Fortran models and found that
>>>> there is one incompatible ncarg function (mapchi in v4.0 has been
>>>> changed to mdpchi in v5).
>>>>
>>>> My question is, do you know if there are many such incompatible
>>>> functions between ncarg.v4.0 and ncarg.v5? Since I have lots of
>>>> Fortran codes (~20000 subroutines) to migrate, I want to know how much
>>>> effort I need to solve this incompatibility problems.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jemma
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu
>>>> <mailto:haley@ucar.edu>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Feb 13, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Jemma Wu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a bunch of old Fortran applications (mid 90s) which were
>>>>> written with ncarg-v4.0 on an Alpha machine. Now I am trying to
>>>>> migrate those Fortran programs to a new Intel Core 2 x86-64
>>>>> machine installed with OpenSuse 11.3 (64 bit) OS.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am attempting to install ncarg-v4.0 from the source code which
>>>>> was saved (around mid 90s) on the old Alpha machine . I am trying
>>>>> to build it with the Intel compilers (ifort and icc). I followed
>>>>> the installation documentations from
>>>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/build_from_src.shtml. I have got
>>>>> lots of compilation errors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Before I post and ask about those compilation errors, I'd like to
>>>>> ask a couple of basic questions about ncarg-v4.0.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. Does the ncarg-v4.0 support my new hardware, operating system
>>>>> and compilers?
>>>>
>>>> Hi Jemma,
>>>>
>>>> We don't generally go back and compile older versions of NCAR
>>>> Graphics on newer hardware, so I can't say for certain whether it
>>>> should build as is on your newer system. This brings us to your
>>>> next question:
>>>>
>>>>> 2. Is the source code of ncarg-v4.0 still available for
>>>>> downloading somewhere? I suspect that my older version of the
>>>>> v4.0 source code doesn't support my new environment.
>>>>
>>>> A newer version of the source code is available, and should be
>>>> backwards compatible. My suggestion is to download NCL version
>>>> 5.2.1, which contains the NCARG source code. There are precompiled
>>>> binaries available, but not for ifort/icc. If you choose to build
>>>> from source code, then you can run the "Configure" program that
>>>> comes with NCL V5.2.1, and answer "no" to the "build NCL?"
>>>> question. This will get you just the NCAR Graphics libraries and
>>>> associated files that you got with the ncarg-v4. source in the 90s.
>>>>
>>>> You can try downloading a precompiled binary first. Sometimes the
>>>> icc/ifort compilers will work with gcc/gfortran compiled
>>>> libraries, but you may have to include some additional libraries
>>>> to "help" the compilation. If this fails, then you can try
>>>> downloading source code.
>>>>
>>>> To download the latest NCL precompiled binaries and/or source
>>>> code, please see:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/
>>>>
>>>> Please email me if you need help with the precompiled binaries or
>>>> building from source code.
>>>>
>>>> --Mary
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I appreciate your kind help.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Jemma
>>>>>
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