Re: 951005: netCDF on sun solaris

Cindy,

>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 95 16:59:33 PDT 
>From: address@hidden (CR Turney)
>Organization: Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories
>Subject: Re: 951005: netCDF on sun solaris 
>Keywords: 199510051709.AA26566

In the above message you wrote:

>       The reason I used the nondefault XDRFILE in the first place is that
> I was having trouble with NCAR's ZEBRA software.  It was inserting bogus zeros
> into my netCDF files.  It was a problem that was very difficult to demonstrate
> reliably, because it would appear and disappear again.  
> 
>       The problem would occur on our auto-mounted system but not on our
> system which wasn't auto-mounted.
> 
>       Gary Granger, of NCAR, gave me a netcdf library that he created on
> his solaris system using xdrstdio instead of xdrposix.  It seems to have
> solved my problem.  So, now it was time to create my own library.  But, I
> had problems so finally I contacted you.
> 
> *******************************************************************************
> 
>       I went ahead and followed your suggested CUSTOMIZE changes, anyway, 
> andI am still having trouble:
> 
> I had trouble with make all:
...
> making `all' in directory /home/d3a058/netcdf/netcdf-232pl4/fortran
>  
> ./fortc -L . -O sunos common.inc > netcdf.inc
> ./fortc -L . -O sunos jackets.src > jackets.c
> gcc -O -c -I../libsrc -DDEBUG -g jackets.c
> jackets.c:74: initializer element for `ncfils_.dd' is not constant
> jackets.c:76: initializer element for `ncfils_.ff' is not constant
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `jackets.o'
> Current working directory /home/d3a058/netcdf/netcdf-232pl4/fortran
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'
> Current working directory /home/d3a058/netcdf/netcdf-232pl4/fortran
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `fortran/all'

If you don't have a need for old fill values (see the discussion in the
INSTALL file), then I suggest the following:

    1.  Go to the top-level source directory.

    2.  Execute `make clean'.

    3.  Edit the file CUSTOMIZE and remove the setting of OLDFILLVALUES.

    4.  Execute `./configure' and send it to me.

    5.  Execute `make clean'.
 
> *****************************************************************************
> So I put these constants in jackets.c that I found on another solaris
> machine.  I have no idea whether they are correct.
> 
>     /* XDR_D_INFINITY,          You may have to insert a constant here */
>     1.797693134862315900e+308,
>     FILL_LONG,
>     /* XDR_F_INFINITY,          You may have to insert a constant here */
>     3.40282357e+38,

They should be ok.

> Then I did another make all, which appeared to be successful.
> 
> Then my make test failed (and now I am stuck, again):
> 
> {116} d3a058@mock -> make test
...
> making `test' in directory /home/d3a058/netcdf/netcdf-232pl4/fortran
>  
> ar rcuv ../libsrc/libnetcdf.a jackets.o
> ./fortc -L . -O sunos ftest.src > ftest.f
> f77 -c  ftest.f
> ftest.f:
>  MAIN ftest:
>         tncacpy:
>         tncadel:
>         tncagt:
>         tncapt:
>  BLOCK DATA:
>         tncddef:
>         tncinq:
>         tncredf:
>         tncvdef:
>         tncvgt:
>         tncvgt1:
>         tncvpt:
>         tncvpt1:
> f77 ftest.o -L../libsrc -lnetcdf -o ftest
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> __eprintf                           ../libsrc/libnetcdf.a(file.o)
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to ftest
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `ftest'
> Current working directory /home/d3a058/netcdf/netcdf-232pl4/fortran
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test'
> Current working directory /home/d3a058/netcdf/netcdf-232pl4/fortran

I suspect that the Sun FORTRAN compiler and the GNU C compiler aren't
working well together.  You'll probably have to tell the FORTRAN
compiler to use the GNU C runtime library.  The reference will be
something like `-L/usr/local/gnu/lib -lc' or
`-L/usr/local/gnu/lib/gcc-lib/sun4-sun-sunos5.4/2.7.0 -lgcc'.  This
should be added to the LIBS macro in the file fortran/Makefile.

--------
Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>