Re: 20040306: build netcdf 3.5.1 on my Mac running OS 10.3.2

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>From: Robert Pincus <address@hidden>
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>Organization: CU
>Keywords: 200403060144.i261iUrV004116 netCDF MacOS-X xlf

Hi Robert,

> I'd like to build netcdf 3.5.1 on my Mac running OS 10.3.2  with the 
> spiffy new IBM  xlf compilers. I know I can do so with the Absoft 
> compiler (I have done), but I understand that the IBM compiler make 
> much faster code, so I want to compile my numerical codes with xlf, but 
> it won't link against module built with the absoft compile.
> 
> So - I've configured environment variables to set up CC=gcc, F90=xlf90, 
> FC=xlf, F90FLAGS=-qsuffix=cpp=f90. I get as far as building the fortran 
> subdirectory, and then it croaks - cfortran.h doesn't have my 
> definitions in it, apparently. Is there another environment variable I 
> should set? I'm not sure how to interpret all the stuff in cfortran.h.

Try:

            Environment Variable        String
            --------------------        --------------
            CPPFLAGS                    -DIBMR2Fortran
            F90FLAGS                    -qsuffix=f=f90

For more details, see:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/cgi-bin/msgout?/glimpse/netcdf/5477

Please let us know if this works.  Thanks!

--Russ