Re: Runtime error with NCL 6.2.1 on OS X 10.6.8 after upgrade

From: Chris Waigl <chris.waigl_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Thu May 23 2013 - 09:41:17 MDT

Hi Mary,

My default gcc is 4.2, but after this happened, I also installed gcc-4.6 so its libraries should be available. This didn't change anything.

Thanks for your help, and hope you have a good time in Albany!

Chris

On May 22, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Mary Haley wrote:

> Hi Chris,
>
> Sorry for the delay in response. We are teaching a workshop in Albany this week.
>
> I believe this problem is related to an incompatibility with gcc/gfortran compilers versions.
> The NCL binary for MacOS10.6 was built with gcc/gfortran version 4.6.0.
>
> What version do you have on your system?
>
> gcc --version
> gfortran --version
>
> --Mary
>
> On May 21, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> I upgraded NCL from 6.1.0 to 6.2.1 on my Mac (OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard) by downloading the precompiled binaries (OpenDAP enabled). Everything appears to be working fine, until I try to print to png files. Code snippet:
>>
>> ===
>> outputtype = "png"
>> ...
>> xwks = gsn_open_wks(outputtype, "filename")
>> ===
>>
>> The error appears the first time plot is called on this workstation. Error message:
>>
>> ===
>> dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: ___emutls_get_address
>> Referenced from: /usr/local/ncl-6.1.2/bin/ncl
>> Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
>>
>> dyld: Symbol not found: ___emutls_get_address
>> Referenced from: /usr/local/ncl-6.1.2/bin/ncl
>> Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
>> ===
>>
>> The file /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib does exist:
>>
>> ===
>> chris$ ls -lAF /usr/lib/libSystem*
>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6890816 Jun 7 2011 /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib*
>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8996800 Dec 8 2010 /usr/lib/libSystem.B_debug.dylib*
>> -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 7096080 Dec 8 2010 /usr/lib/libSystem.B_profile.dylib*
>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 17 Apr 27 2010 /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib@ -> libSystem.B.dylib
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75820 May 18 2009 /usr/lib/libSystemStubs.a
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75820 May 18 2009 /usr/lib/libSystemStubs_debug.a
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 75924 May 18 2009 /usr/lib/libSystemStubs_profile.a
>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23 Apr 8 2011 /usr/lib/libSystem_debug.dylib@ -> libSystem.B_debug.dylib
>> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 25 Apr 8 2011 /usr/lib/libSystem_profile.dylib@ -> libSystem.B_profile.dylib
>> ===
>>
>> The error does not occur if I print to pdf instead of png. It also didn't occur with 6.1.0 before the upgrade.
>>
>> Has anyone seen anything like this? Is this a problem with my environment or with the way the executable is compiled?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chris Waigl
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Received on Thu May 23 09:41:27 2013

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