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Re: 20051003: Compiling GEMPAK in FC4

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  • Subject: Re: 20051003: Compiling GEMPAK in FC4
  • Date: 03 Oct 2005 12:36:10 -0600
Christian,

No other g77 flags were used here on our FC4 platform.
GEMPAK compiles and runs under both 32 and 64 bit. I post binary
distributions compiled on the 32 bit for users of either platform.


Steve Chiswell
Unidata User Support



On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:19, Christian Pagé wrote:
> Steve,
> 
> I was finally successful with the following modifications in the file
> Makeinc.linux:
> - I added -v -g to g77 invokation.
> and no further core dump...
> 
> But, our system is 64-bit. Must I impose 32-bit for compilation?
> 
> Christian
> 
> 03 Oct 2005 10:08:07 -0600, Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>:
> > Christian,
> >
> > I have built the latest GEMPAK under FC4 with g77/gcc settings
> > as supplied with the distribution. If your g77 program core dumps,
> > then it sounds like a problem with the installation.
> >
> > Our FC4 32 bit environment is:
> > 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
> >
> > g77 -v
> > --->>> gcc version 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-47.fc4)
> >
> > gcc -v
> > --->>> gcc version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)
> >
> >
> > Gfortran use is not recommended at this time according to the
> > gfortran man page:
> >         For those whose Fortran codes conform to either the Fortran 77
> >         standard or the GNU Fortran 77 language, we recommend to use g77
> >         from GCC 3.4.  We recommend that distributors continue to
> >         provide packages of g77-3.4 until we announce that gfortran
> >         fully replaces g77.
> >
> > Steve Chiswell
> > Unidata User Support
> >
> > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 19:58, Christian Pagé wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > >
> > > I am not successful in compiling GEMPAK in Fedora Core 4.
> > > In FC4, there is gcc 4 and gfortran. gfortran breaks some GEMPAK code.
> > > If I try to use gcc 3.2 and g77, g77 exit with a segmentation fault
> > > (installed using yum).
> > >
> > > Anyone had success?
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > --
> > > Christian Pagé
> > > UQAM
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Christian Pagé
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