Re: 19990106: Re: ncvgt subroutines

Steve,

>Date: 6 Jan 1999 16:27:37 -0500
>From: "Steve Mauget" <address@hidden>
>Organization: USDA/ARS
>To: "Steve Emmerson" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 19990106: Re: ncvgt sub
>Keywords: 199812301538.IAA00805

In the above message, you wrote:

> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for m4... m4
> checking user-defined C compiler "/bin/c89"
> checking C compiler... works
> checking how to make dependencies... cc -M
> configure: warning: Empty CXX variable
> configure: warning: The C++ interface will not be built
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /bin/c89 -E
> checking user-defined Fortran compiler "/usr/local/bin/f90"... works
> checking for Fortran .F compiler... 
> checking if Fortran compiler handles *.F files... no
> checking for Fortran preprocessor... /bin/c89 -E
...

> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
> 
> configure:1020: /bin/c89 -c -g -o32  conftest.c 1>&5
> configure:1220: /bin/c89 -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:1319: /usr/local/bin/f90 -c -g -mismatch -ldarg -32 -ccarg -32
> conftest.f
> configure:1422: /usr/local/bin/f90 -o conftest -g -mismatch -ldarg -32 -ccarg
> -32 conftest.F  
> File with unknown suffix .F passed to ld
> No such feature exists (-5,116)
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> cc: Error: Fortran is not installed (could not find /usr/lib/fcom).
...

I think I see what the problem is.  For various reasons, certain
Fortran files in the netCDF package must be preprocessed by the C
preprocessor before they can be compiled by the Fortran compiler.
These files are identified by a ".F" extension.  Many (if not most)
Fortran compilers automatically run the C preprocessor on such files.
Your Fortran compiler, however, apparently doesn't.  Consequently,
your C preprocessor is explicitly used to preprocess such files.
Unfortunately, your C preprocessor appears to be broken.

The solution is to discover a way to preprocess .F files: either by
using your f90 compiler with some particular option or by using the C
preprocessor with some particular option.

Look at your documentation for your f90 compiler and your C compiler.
See if you can come up with a way to preprocess .F files.

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