Re: 20040910: Mac OS X, NetCDF

>To: address@hidden
>From: Nancy Kiang <address@hidden>
>Subject: netcdf on Mac OS X with Absoft Fortran
>Organization: NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
>Keywords: 200409100019.i8A0JmnJ007693

Hi Nancy,

> Hi, I am trying to install netcdf on my Powerbook G4 with Mac OS X. 
> I do not have the IBM xfl90, but I have Absoft 8.2 f90.  My make 
> stalls with:
> 
> 'Not making `f90/all' because no FORTRAN-90 compiler'
> 
>   Do you have tips for installing netcdf with Absoft f90?

We don't have the Absoft compiler for Mac OS X installed here for
testing, but here's a link to someone else who has succeeded with this
combination, and how they did it:

  http://unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/other-builds.html#absoft-macosx

The patch in the above should work fine with netCDF 3.5.1 also, since
the cfortran.h file that is patched didn't change between 3.5.0 and
3.5.1.  Alternatively, if you still have problems, you might also try
the 3.6.0 beta release, which has a later version of cfortran.h,
although I don't think the Absoft compiler support changed.

Also, I noted in your configure.log:

> checking user-defined Fortran-77 compiler "/usr/bin/g77"... failed to compile 
> test program

because you have the environment variable FC=/usr/bin/g77.  I would
just use the Absoft f90 compiler for your f77 compiler as well, by
setting FC=f90 or FC=/Applications/Absoft/bin/f90.  It's necessary to
successfully compile the F77 interface in order for the F90 interface
to work, because the F90 interface depends on (and calls) the F77
interface. 

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden          http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ

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