[Support #YOU-609917]: NetCDF 4.1.1 with PGI 10.4 breaks

> 
> BTW:  This issue occurred regardless of whether I had followed step 2 of
> the recipe to edit:
> *pgCC\ [1-5].* | *pgcpp\ [1-5].*)
> 
> (can't remember which version of the logs I sent, but you should be able
> to reproduce the problem).
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Williams, Greg
> Sent: 27 April 2010 16:52
> To: 'address@hidden'; 'address@hidden'
> Subject: NetCDF 4.1.1 with PGI 10.4 breaks
> 
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On a linux x86_64 platform with PGI 10.4 compilers, and following the
> recipe for NetCDF 4.0 builds here:
> http://www.pgroup.com/resources/netcdf/netcdf40_pgi2010.htm
> 
> ..results in an error at the configure stage of NetCDF 4.1.1:
> ...
> checking for Fortran "byte"... yes
> checking for Fortran "integer*2"... yes
> checking if Fortran "byte" is C "signed char"... configure: error:
> Could not compile conftest.c
> 
> 
> Setting the configure switch:
> 
> --disable-fortran-type-check
> 
> ..does help pass the configure stage, but various make-errors occur
> later - starting with:
> 
> "ncx.c", line 111: error: a value of type "void *" cannot be used to
> initialize an entity of type "char *"
> char *op = dst;
> 
> 
> Has anyone tested the latest NetCDF 4.1.1 build with the latest PGI 10.4
> release?
> 
> Greg.

No, our testing has been with pgf95 9.0.3 used with gcc 4.3.2, which worked
fine "out of the box", without the changes recommended on the Portland Group
web page you cited.  The successful output from the 4.1.1 test to just build 
and test the netCDF-3 libraries is here:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/builds/4_1_1/out_spock_2010040807_17_0.txt

from using

  CPPFLAGS= CC=cc CFLAGS=-m32 CXX=c++ CXXFLAGS=-m32 FC=pgf95 FCFLAGS=-g 
F77=pgf95 FFLAGS=-g LDFLAGS= LIBS=-L/machine/local_shared/lib FLIBS= F90LIBS= 
./configure --disable-netcdf-4
  make check install

Similar output for a netCDF-4 build is here:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/builds/4_1_1/out_spock_2010040807_17_1.txt

from using the same environment variables but configure arguments

  ./configure --with-curl-config=/machine/local_32/bin/curl-config 
--enable-netcdf-4 --with-hdf5=/machine/local_32 

It will be a while before we get upgraded to the 10.4 PGI compilers, so we can't
reproduce the problem currently.  I recommend applying step 2 from the PGI page 
(because 
otherwise the version 10.x compiler seems to be treated like a version 1.x 
compiler), 
but otherwise just try the standard configure and make check on 4.1.1 using gcc 
and pgf95,
as we did in testing 4.1.1  If you have problems with that, please send us the 
output 
listed here:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install/Reporting-Problems.html

and we'll try to figure out why it's not working.

--Russ

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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YOU-609917
Department: Support
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed