20011207: Linux installation; NAG Fortran: "getarg_" undefined

Verena,

>Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 12:49:43 +0100
>From: Verena Cals <address@hidden>
>Organization: ?
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20011206: Linux installation; NAG Fortran
>Keywords: 200111260830.fAQ8UKN14318

The above message contained the following:

> I've tried this and I've performed up to step 7 without problems. But
> now I've got a failure by performing step 8.
> I only send make.log and test.log, because the other files and
> specifications didn't change.
> 
> Regards,
> Verena
...

> Making `test' in directory
> /home1/icg152/Uebungen/NetCDF/netcdf-3.5.0/src/nf_test
>  
> make[2]: Entering directory
> `/home1/icg152/Uebungen/NetCDF/netcdf-3.5.0/src/nf_test'
> /usr/bin/gcc -c -O   -DNDEBUG -DNAGf90Fortran fortlib.c
> /usr/local/bin/f95 -o nf_test -O -mismatch -w  test_get.o test_put.o
> nf_error.o
> nf_test.o test_read.o test_write.o util.o fortlib.o
> ../libsrc/libnetcdf.a  -lm
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home1/icg152/Uebungen/NetCDF/netcdf-3.5.0/src/nf_test'
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home1/icg152/Uebungen/NetCDF/netcdf-3.5.0/src'
> n `main':
> nf_test.o(.text+0x23b): undefined reference to `getarg_'
> nf_test.o(.text+0x26f): undefined reference to `iargc_'
> nf_test.o(.text+0x2b3): undefined reference to `getarg_'
> nf_test.o(.text+0x425): undefined reference to `getarg_'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [nf_test] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [subdir_target] Error 1
> make: *** [nf_test/test] Error 2

I searched the netCDF support-email archive for
"NAG;Fortran;getarg_" and found the following in
<http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/netcdf/3903>:

    It appears that the NAG f95 environment on your system doesn't
    support getopt(3f), which is the standard way of obtaining
    command-line arguments in a Unix environment. It could be that you
    need to add a particular library reference to the command that
    builds the test program "fortran/nf_test". I don't know what that
    referece might be (check with your documentation). If you can't
    find any support for getopt(3f), then I would complain to the
    vendor of the development environment for not supplying a complete
    environment.

The "getarg_" and related routines are only needed to test the
Fortran-90 interface; therefore, it could be that the Fortran-90 layer
was successfully built (but can't be tested). You might ignore the
testing and just install the package (step 9) and see if it works OK.

In any case, you should complain loudly to NAG for not providing a
proper runtime library.

> Verena Cals
> 
> ICG I: Stratosphäre
> Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
> EMail: address@hidden

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