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- Subject: Re: 20051003: Compiling GEMPAK in FC4
- Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:17:05 -0400
The cause of the problem with g77 was probably a kernel problem. Running: 'yum update' and rebooting fixed the problems!!! 2005/10/4, Christian Pagé <address@hidden>: > Steve, > > There is definitively a problem with our g77, but with the -g flag, it > works nicely... It was installed using yum, so it should be quite a > solid built... I need to investigate the cause. Meanwhile, I could > finish the compilation of the latest GEMPAK and it works nicely! :-) > > Christian > > 03 Oct 2005 12:36:10 -0600, Steve Chiswell <address@hidden>: > > 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 > > > http://meteocentre.com/ http://meteoalerte.com/ > > > Etudiant au Doctorat en Sciences de l'environnement UQAM > > > > > -- > Christian Pagé > http://meteocentre.com/ http://meteoalerte.com/ > Etudiant au Doctorat en Sciences de l'environnement UQAM > -- Christian Pagé http://meteocentre.com/ http://meteoalerte.com/ Etudiant au Doctorat en Sciences de l'environnement UQAM
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