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Bernard, >Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:04:41 +0100 (CET) >From: Bernard Legras <address@hidden> >Organization: Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 20040224: error in compiling netcdf > Keywords: 200402241106.i1OB6MrV006988 netCDF PGI Fortran The above message contained the following: > Thanks for your answer. I will send you a more detailed report > about the #define problem when I am back in my lab next week. > > As for PGI5.1, I agree it is probably a bug in their compiler > and it appears only in this version. However, this compiler > is one of the favorites to compile WRF that relies also heavily > on netcdf for the output. > Hence, it would be desirable to fix the problem. > I am ready to report to Portland but perhaps it would have > more weight coming from unidata. We'll investigate this. > Notice that the problem a priori affects only the new f90 > interface. One can probably live with. Good. > A lats question is about compiling netcdf on 64bit architecture, > namely for AMD Opteron. PGI5.1 has a 64bit version that > provides impressive speedup (at least on my codes). I have > not yet tried to compile netcdf. Has is been done it and is there > any recommandation? The following worked with version 3.5.1 of the netCDF package (the latest release): CC=/usr/bin/c89 CPPFLAGS=-Df2cFortran FC=/usr/bin/g77 FFLAGS=-Wno-globals CXX=/usr/bin/g++ > Sincerely > > Bernard Legras Regards, Steve Emmerson