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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