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20031117: Problem with Absoft8.0 on Mac OS

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  • Subject: 20031117: Problem with Absoft8.0 on Mac OS
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:27:02 -0700
Stephen,

> To: Unidata <address@hidden>
> From: Stephen Leroy <address@hidden>
> Subject: Problem with Absoft8.0 on Mac OS X
> Organization: NASA/JPL
> Keywords: netCDF 3.5.0 MacOS

The above message contained the following:

> I am having problems building fortran applications on a Mac OS X system 
> with netcdf 3.5.0. I have added the patch to cfortran.h and set 
> environment variables, within configure, as suggested. Linking to 
> netcdf, though, still doesn't work. Might it have something to do with 
> the fact I'm using Absoft 8.0 compiler instead of 7.0?

The file "configure.log" contained the following error message:

    checking user-defined Fortran-77 compiler "/Applications/Absoft/bin/f90"... 
    Error: bad option:  --YEXT_NAMES=LCS

Unfortunately, the file "config.log" didn't contain the standard error
output from the compilation command:

    configure:1383: checking user-defined Fortran-77 compiler 
"/Applications/Absoft/bin/f90"
    configure:1389: /Applications/Absoft/bin/f90 -c --YEXT_NAMES=LCS 
-YEXT_SFX=_ -YCFRL=1 conftest.f
    configure:1548: checking for Fortran .F compiler


so the reason for the error is unclear.  It appears, however, that the
Absoft 8.0 Fortran compiler doesn't understand the "--YEXT_NAMES=LCS"
option, whereas the Absoft Pro Fortran 7.0 compiler mentioned in the
on-line documentation does.

I suggest the following:

    1.  Go to the top-level source directory.

    2.  Perform steps 3 through 5 described near the end of the file
        INSTALL.html.

    3.  Ensure that the environment variable FFLAGS does NOT contain the
        "--YEXT_NAMES=LCS" option.

    4.  Perform steps 6 through 9 described near the end of the file
        INSTALL.html.  Be sure that you redirect BOTH standard output
        AND standard error to the log files.

Please let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson