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

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  • Subject: Re: 20040306: build netcdf 3.5.1 on my Mac running OS 10.3.2 (fwd)
  • Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 10:35:06 -0700
>To: address@hidden
>From: Robert Pincus <address@hidden>
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>Organization: CU
>Keywords: 200403060144.i261iUrV004116 netCDF MacOS-X xlf

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Date:    Mon, 08 Mar 2004 11:11:32 -0500
From:    Robert Pincus <address@hidden>
To:      Russ Rew <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: 20040306: build netcdf 3.5.1 on my Mac running OS 10.3.2 

>> 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

I used this environment, and everything seems to work just fine:

CC=cc
FC=xlf
F90=xlf90
F90FLAGS=-qsuffix=cpp=f90
CPPFLAGS=-DIBMR2Fortran -DNDEBUG

This is using xlf 8.1, which may need different versions of the 
-qsuffix flag than whatever you were using before.

Thanks for the help, as always

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Robert Pincus
NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center
325 S. Broadway, R/CDC1
Boulder CO 80305 USA
Phone: (303) 497-6310
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~robert/

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