20000504: f90 build problem: can't find f77 routines: Absoft, Linux

Bruce,

> Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 17:11:04 -0400 (EDT)
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> Subject: 20000504:f90 build problem: can't find f77 routines
> Organization: Dept. Of Geography/University Of Toronto
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In the above message you wrote:

> Thanks for your rapid reply.  The library files are in place.  I think
> everything is fine, and still get the same eorror.  There are 9 attached
> files: 1-5 are the netCDF building log files, 6 is system info file, 7 is
> the f90 building log file, and 8-9 are the library files.  Thanks for any
> advise.  

[enclosures removed]

By using the "nm" utility on a Linux system, I discovered that the
Fortran routines in your netCDF library, "libnetcdf.a", are named like
the following:

    nf_inq_libvers__

whereas, the Absoft Fortran compiler is looking for names like this:

    NF_INQ_LIBVERS

It appears, therefore, that a FUNDAMENTAL INCOMPATIBILITY exists between
the naming conventions used by your "g77" compiler and the Absoft
Fortran-90 compiler.  (This is lamentable but not surprising.)

I suggest that you try rebuilding the netCDF package using the Absoft
Fortran compiler as the *only* Fortran compiler:

    1.  Go to the top-level, netCDF, source-directory.

    2.  Perform steps 3 and 4 near the end of the INSTALL file.

    3.  Perform step 5 near the end of the INSTALL file with the
        following exceptions:
    
            a.  Ensure that the environment variable FC is set to "f90"
                (an absolute pathname would be best -- but I couldn't
                determine from your information what it was); and

            b.  Ensure that the environment variable CPPFLAGS does *not*
                contain the string "-Df2cFortran".

    4.  Perform steps 6 through 9 near the end of the INSTALL file.

Please let me know if this helps.

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