20020703: Installing on an SGI

Werner,

I do the release engineering here on my desktop SGI octane. It does have
the fortran compilers.

There are options:

1) I can make IRIX binaries available  as I do for Solaris and Linux. I have 
posted
   IRIX executables in the past for another site....it just takes up another 
100MB
   on our tar file download site.

2) I have not built with g77/gcc on SGI, but I could try to create
   configurations for that environment. I do provide gcc/g77 options for
   Linux.


I have found that the PGI compilers do not support 1 of the fortran features 
that
the code uses...so it appears that for the present time, that is no an 
alternative.

Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support


>From: Werner Wintels <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200207032251.g63Mp2n04217

>
>I'm currently working up a budget for setting up a 
>synoptic lab running GEMPAK on 
>10 SGI Indigo II's. However, the licensing fees for IRIX FORTRAN approaches 
>the cost of the hardware itself, making it a rather expensive 
>proposition. We are considering installing  a more generic  
>FORTRAN compiler. I get the feeling that this is asking for grief. I realize 
>that the configuration libraries are set for 
>Irix. 
>
>How picky are the installation programs about the compilers used by 
>the operating system? If this has proved to be a problem in the past, we may 
>have to hold our nose and pay those exhorbitant licensing fees.
>
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>Werner Wintels 
>Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
>McGill University    
>Montreal, Canada
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