20030416: building netCDF on Redhat 8.0 using gcc and pgf77

Hugh,

>Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:52:42 -0400
>From: Hugh Ellis <address@hidden>
>Organization: Johns Hopkins University
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: netcdf issue

The above message contained the following:

> Following your suggestion, I'm trying to create netcdf using pgf90 and gcc 
> (instead of using pg c compilers) on a machine that runs Redhat 8.0 and am 
> getting repeated configure errors early on from the gnu linker  e.g.,
> 
> configure:1946: /usr/pgi/linux86/bin/pgf77 -o conftest -O2 -pc 32 -Mlfs 
> -byteswapio  conftestf.o conftest.o
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpgc
> 
> Presumably, the library libpgc.a isn't being found.

That is correct. The fact that the pqf77 compiler can't find the C
runtime library that it, itself, requires indicates a problem with the
installation of the PG compilers. You should bring this to the attention
of your system administrator. Until this situation is rectified, there's
not much that you can (or should) do about it.

> There are many libpgc.a files - each one a different size - in the pg group 
> directory structure. Which one to use, and where to put it? Doesn't seem 
> plausible that I would have to hardwire this.

You are correct in that it shouldn't be your responsibility.

> Strange - using the same pg install procedure, this configure error didn't 
> happen earlier on another machine.

That system probably had a correct installation of the PG compilers.

> Thanks,
> 
> Hugh

Regards,
Steve Emmerson