20031208: Installing NetCDF 3.5.1 beta13 failed with "make test" by using pgf90 and gcc, g++ on RedHat Enterprise 3 WS ( gcc version 3.2.3)

Yongtao Hu,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Yongtao Hu <address@hidden>
> Subject: Installing NetCDF 3.5.1 beta13 failed with "make test" by using 
> pgf90 and gcc, g++ on RedHat Enterprise 3 WS ( gcc version 3.2.3) 
> Organization: Georgia Tech
> Keywords: netCDF RedHat Linux gcc g++ PGF90

The above message contained the following:

> I listed A through H for the conveniecen.
> 
> A. uname -a 
> Linux hapi.ce.gatech.edu 2.4.21-4.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Oct 23 01:21:42 EDT 
> 2003 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> B. VERSION
> 3.5.1-beta13
> C, E, F, G, H are attchaed for check.
> 
> Thanks in advance for your help.
> 
> Yongtao
...

You used the following settings:

    CC=/usr/bin/gcc
    CPPFLAGS='-DNDEBUG -DpgiFortran'
    CFLAGS=-O
    FC=/export/drive5/usr_local/pgi/linux86/5.1/bin/pgf90
    FFLAGS='-O -w'
    CXX=/usr/bin/g++

These settings correspond to a Linux example in the file "INSTALL.html";
hence, they should work -- but the "make test" fails for the Fortran-90
interface:

> Making `test' in directory 
> /export/drive5/usr_local/netcdf-3.5.1-beta13/src/f90
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/export/drive5/usr_local/netcdf-3.5.1-beta13/src/f9
> 0'
> /export/drive5/usr_local/pgi/linux86/5.1/bin/pgf90 -o netcdf_test -O -w  
> netcdf_
> test.f90 netcdf.o typeSizes.o ../libsrc/libnetcdf.a 
> ./netcdf_test
> example_good.cdl example.cdl differ: byte 881, line 37
> *** Failure ***
> *** example_good.cdl    2000-04-05 15:33:14.000000000 -0400
> --- example.cdl 2003-12-08 13:01:58.000000000 -0500
> ***************
> *** 34,43 ****
>     953, 954, 955,
>     956, 957, 958,
>     959, 960, 961,
> !   962, 963, 964,
> !   965, 966, 967,
> !   968, 969, 970,
> !   971, 972, 973 ;
>   
>    lat = -90, -87.5, -85, -82.5 ;
>   
> --- 34,43 ----
>     953, 954, 955,
>     956, 957, 958,
>     959, 960, 961,
> !   950, 951, 952,
> !   953, 954, 955,
> !   956, 957, 958,
> !   959, 960, 961 ;
>   
>    lat = -90, -87.5, -85, -82.5 ;
>   
> make[2]: Leaving directory 
> `/export/drive5/usr_local/netcdf-3.5.1-beta13/src/f90
> '
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/drive5/usr_local/netcdf-3.5.1-beta13/src'

This is the only error in the "test.log" file.

The Fortran-90 layer is unable to correctly create a netCDF file -- yet
it only invokes the Fortran-77 interface and that layer checked-out OK.

We have never seen this problem before and I have been unable to 
duplicate the failure here.

There are some differences between our two systems, however:

    1.  You're running Linux 2.4.21-4.0.1.ELsmp but we're running
        Linux 2.4.18-14smp;

    2.  Your version of the gcc compiler is 3.2.3 but our's is 3.2-7.

    3.  Your version of the pgf90 compiler is 5.1 but our's is 4.0-2.

It is possible that the more recent version of the PGI Fortran-90 
compiler has a bug.  Do you need the Fortran-90 interface?

Regards,
Steve Emmerson