Re: Installing v5.0 from source

Hi Mary. Thanks for you quick reply.

Yes, I tried the blockdata tests, and they failed with the xlf
compiler but they seem to work okay with both the f77 and f90 Absoft
compilers (Pro Fortran 9.2). Here's what I get with the Absoft f90
compiler:

/Users/mark/testncl/blockdata_test> main.good
TESTSUB: WK = 20 ...it should be 20
/Users/mark/testncl/blockdata_test> main.bad
TESTSUB: WK = 20 ...it should be 20
/Users/mark/testncl/blockdata_test> main.init
TESTSUB: WK = 20 ...it should be 20

That is okay, right?

Mark

>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Generally you shouldn't need to run "ymake" as a stand-alone program.
> This is done internally when you run "make Everything" or "make me"
> or anything else that generates Makefiles.
>
> However, I think what's happening here is that when you run ymake as a
> stand-alone, it needs to know where the configuration files are. I
> believe you just need to set the environment variable NCARG_CONFIG
> to the directory $NCARG/config, where "$NCARG" represents the top
> level of your source tree.
>
> Or, the other thing to try is actually installing the configuration
> files. You can do this by typing:
>
> cd $NCARG/config
> make install
>
> This may not work, however, depending on how you've customized your
> environment. The first method might be your best bet.
>
> Just out of curiosity, have you gotten to the part about the blockdata
> tests? In the past, I've found that the compilers you mention below do
> not handle blockdata initializations properly, and hence you can't use
> them to compile NCL.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Mark Branson wrote:
>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I'm taking a stab at installing the new v5.0 of ncarg/ncl on my
>> Mac PowerPC G5 from the source code. I'm motivated to do this
>> because I'm trying to run the CCSM AMWG variability diagnostics
>> package and it's failing on the 6-hourly power spectra plots, and
>> this part of the package uses fortran programs called by ncl
>> routines, so WRAPIT needs to work properly. And we do not use GNU
>> fortran on the machines in our research group -- we have both the
>> Absoft and XLF compilers available. (From some previous posts
>> I've seen on ncl-talk, I suspect that my problems are stemming
>> from the fact that we have a g77-compiled version of NCL
>> v4.2.0.a032, but I'm using a different fortran compiler within
>> WRAPIT to produce the shared object libraries, and that's causing
>> some sort of conflict.)
>>
>> So I'm following the directions in the INSTALL.html file. I did
>> the blockdata test and XLF fails that but Absoft is fine, so I'll
>> use the Absoft fortran compiler.
>>
>> Now I'm testing ymake and it says:
>>
>> ymake : Unable to open NCARG_CONFIG dir : /usr/local/lib/ncarg/config
>>
>> But I don't think the problem is that it's not recognizing my
>> system info, because I can do this:
>>
>> /Users/mark/testncl/ncl_ncarg-5.0.0/config> uname -s
>> Darwin
>> /Users/mark/testncl/ncl_ncarg-5.0.0/config> uname -m
>> Power Macintosh
>>
>> I should note that this machine currently has ncarg v4.2.0.a023
>> and ncl v4.2.0.a032 already installed on it.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Mark
>>
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Received on Wed Nov 07 2007 - 10:35:05 MST