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Re: Absoft9.2 and netcdf

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  • Subject: Re: Absoft9.2 and netcdf
  • Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:36:20 -0600
John,

>    The issue I was trying to resolve was the flags on the Absoft 9.2
> compilier and their interaction with the building of the netcdf library.
> A common option used in build fortran codes with absoft is to employ
> 2 options: YEXT_NAME and YEXT_SFX which are used for compatibility
> with other libraries.  It turns out that when using these flags in
> building the netcdf library and then a code that uses that library,
> these options result in subroutine names that are managled and the
> code is unable to find the netcdf routines.  I have not tried the
> other method, but I think the result is that the library being
> build also drops the above options implicitly.  The script is just
> a way of getting the correct version of netcdf (the beta 3 version)
> and setting all the options for tuning and optimization for G5 and
> 64-bit (as these are not the defaults).

OK, thanks, I included a link to your script here:

  
http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/netcdf/docs/other-builds.html#absoft

Please let me know if you want this changed.

--Russ