Re: 20020827: Netcdf 3.5.0 fails with linux on FAT32 partition

Hi Andreas,

 ...
> cc -c -O2 -g   -DNDEBUG fortlib.c
> ifc -o nf_test -O  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 
> nf_test.o: In function `main':
> nf_test.o(.text+0x223): undefined reference to `getarg_'
> nf_test.o(.text+0x248): undefined reference to `iargc_'
> nf_test.o(.text+0x276): undefined reference to `getarg_'
> nf_test.o(.text+0xbcc): undefined reference to `getarg_'
> make[2]: *** [nf_test] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/anma/netcdf-3.5.0/src/nf_test'
> make[1]: *** [subdir_target] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/anma/netcdf-3.5.0/src'
> make: *** [nf_test/test] Error 2

We've encountered this problem with Intel's IFC compiler not finding
the getarg and iargc functions before.  Please see this support reply:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/netcdf/4547

So far, we have no workaround as far as I know.

You also referred to failures when using the FAT32 partition:

> But I have a small problem installing and running netcdf on a RedHat 7.3 
> Linux notebook
> when using a FAT32 partition. Those problems don't exist when using an ext2 
> partition.
> Netcdf seems not to be able to write into files on the FAT32 partition.
> This behavior happens with netcdf-3.5.0-1RH72.i386.rpm and also when 
> compiling/testing
> the source. For compiling and testing I used the same commands for the src 
> tree
> living on the FAT32 and on the ext2 partition respectively.

I'm not sure whether you're saying that the IFC compiler couldn't find
the getarg/iargc functions when you compiled on the FAT32 partition,
or that you got it successfully built but then it couldn't write files
on the FAT32 partition.  I didn't see any symptom of the latter
problem in the output you sent (but I may have missed it among all the
Fortran compiler warnings).

If you have an example of the error you get when trying to write to
the FAT32 partition, it might help.  In the meantime, we'll set up a
FAT32 partition on one of our Linux systems here and see if we can
reproduce the problem, but this may take a couple of days. ...

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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