20040224: error in compiling netcdf

Bernard,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Bernard Legras <address@hidden>
> Subject: error in compiling netcdf
> Organization: Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique
> Keywords: 200402241106.i1OB6MrV006988 netCDF PGI Fortran

The above message contained the following:

> I have downloaded the last netcdf tarball and got same pbs as with 
> previous versions.
> In order to compile netcdf with pgi fortran compiler,
> I found necessary, not only to set the environment variables
> before configure but also to add a line 
> #define pgiFortran
> at the beginning of cfortran.h
> Otherwise, the compilation crashes.

Interesting and thank you for this feedback.

Adding the #define should not have been necessary, however.  Unfortunately,
I don't have enough information to understand why you needed it.

> Besides this, netcdf tests fail for the f90 interface.
> This happens with version 5.1 of pgi compiler but not with version
> 5.0.

I suspect that a bug exists in version 5.1 of the PG compiler -- the
problem you report below hasn't been reported to occur with any other 
compiler.

> error report is included below
> 
> Sincerely
> 
> Bernard Legras
> 
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> make[2]: Entering directory 
> `/d9a/contrib/data/netcdf/netcdf-3.5.1/src/f90'
> pgf90 -o netcdf_test   netcdf_test.f90 netcdf.o typeSizes.o 
> ../libsrc/libnetcdf.a
> netcdf_test.f90:
> ./netcdf_test
> example_good.cdl example.cdl sont différents: octet 881, ligne 37
> *** Failure ***
> *** example_good.cdl    2000-04-05 21:33:14.000000000 +0200
> --- example.cdl 2004-02-24 11:56:32.000000000 +0100
> ***************
> *** 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]: *** [test] Erreur 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/d9a/contrib/data/netcdf/netcdf-3.5.1/src/f90'
> make[1]: *** [subdir_target] Erreur 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/d9a/contrib/data/netcdf/netcdf-3.5.1/src'
> make: *** [f90/test] Erreur 2

Regards,
Steve Emmerson