Re: 19990106: Re: ncvgt subroutines

Steve,

>Date: 6 Jan 1999 14:21:15 -0500
>From: "Steve Mauget" <address@hidden>
>Organization: USDA/ARS
>To: "Steve Emmerson" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 19990105: Re: ncvgt sub
>Keywords: 199812301538.IAA00805

In the above message, you wrote:

>     Went ahead and downloaded v. 3.4 and the install went pretty smoothly
> until "make ftest". Just fer the record, the environment settings that worked
> were:
> 
> 
>  CFLAGS  '-g -o32'
>  CC          /bin/c89'
>  FC          /usr/local/bin/f90
>  FFLAGS  '-g -mismatch -ldarg -32 -ccarg -32'
> 
> 
> The problem (as was a problem when I installed 3.3.1) involves preprocessing
> ftest.F, but the symptoms are different this time.
> Seems like the c89 -E (the preprocessor, according to the output of configure)
> is looking for a fortran 77 utility (mfef77 ?) that is either not installed or
> not licensed on our Indigo 2 ... again, we only have the NAG f90 installed.
> The error message was (also see below)
> 
> c89 ERROR:  cannot exec /usr/lib32/cmplrs/mfef77
> 
> Looked at the c89 man page but couldn't see any way to deal with this problem
> -- didn't see it when I installed 3.3.1 ~ 18 months ago, but I was dealing
> with an older OS (Irix 6.3) and and older C compiler ( version previous to the
> current Mipspro 7.2.1). Next step is to call the SGI support number that is
> found below, but that will have to wait till the end of the month. Whether or
> not my post-doc will be decided around then, and then we'll decide whether we
> want to extend it. I'm a bit burnt out dealing with this anyway and could use
> a break. I'll let you know how it turns out in a few weeks. Thanks for your
> help.
> 
>                                                                               
>                                             Steve M.
> 
> 
> 
> #### From STDOUT of make test ###########################
> 
> Making `test' in directory /temp/netcdf-3.4/src/fortran
> 
> + /bin/c89 -E ftest.F
> + grep -v ^#
> + 1> ftest.f
> No such feature exists (-5,116)
> 
>  The MIPSpro Fortran 77 Compiler 
>  (license FEATURE string = f77) 
>  requires a license password. 
> 
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> c89 ERROR:  cannot exec /usr/lib32/cmplrs/mfef77
> + rm ftest.f
> + exit 1
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)

From the above I'd say that your development environment might be hosed.

If you've got the files "configure.log" and "config.log" lying around,
then please send them to me.  I might see something.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>