[netCDF #OQJ-741904]: NAG Fortran shared library?

Sean,

> Thanks for your response, Russ.

You're welcome.  I added the information you provided into our "Other Builds"
web page, so Google and other users can find it:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/other-builds.html#nagfor-5.3

Please let me know if you need to make any changes or additions to that entry.

--Russ

> The modifications I had to make were fairly mild, so I'm not personally
> too concerned about the lack of support. I just thought it might be
> helpful to someone else, so I will give you the details regarding this
> build for your site. However, if it just so happens that any of your
> testers can access CGD's Frankfurt, you should know that it does have NAG.
> 
> Anyway, here's the info for my build:
> 
> > uname -a
> Linux frankfurt.cgd.ucar.edu 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Apr
> 17 15:16:22 CDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> netCDF version was 4.2
> 
> To get the C interface to netCDF, I just used gcc:
> 
> > gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.4.6 20110731 (Red Hat 4.4.6-3)
> 
> The Fortran interface was built with nagfor 5.3.1:
> 
> > nagfor -V
> NAG Fortran Compiler Release 5.3.1(910)
> Product NPL6A53NA for x86-64 Linux
> Copyright 1990-2012 The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd., Oxford, U.K.
> 
> To build a shared library, I had to change libtool.m4 (configure.ac
> changes were not necessary). The attached diff has those changes.
> 
> With those changes, I followed the instructions on the website to the
> letter, except that I also set these flags in my environment:
> 
> export FCFLAGS="-mismatch_all -kind=byte"
> export FFLAGS="$FCFLAGS"
> 
> Other options such as "-dusty" and "-compat" were not necessary.
> "-mismatch_all" was necessary to turn off NAG's strict procedure
> interface checks, which disallow use of generic/overloaded procedures
> unless an explicit interface is present. NAG generates a prodigious
> number of warnings, so you may want to use some "-w" options for a more
> readable log.
> 
> "-kind" must be specified, and all code compiled against the netCDF
> build must use the same option. I did not try "-kind=sequential".
> 
> An explicit "-r8" was not necessary, and in fact was harmful, because it
> interfered with reading single-precision variables.
> 
> -Sean
> 
> On 11/09/2012 03:04 PM, Unidata netCDF Support wrote:
> > Hi Sean,
> >
> >> I was trying to compile the Fortran interface with NAG 5.3.1 (on top
> >> of GCC 4.4), and there were a few bumps along the way. In particular,
> >> netCDF's build system doesn't know the flags necessary to build a shared
> >> library with NAG (mostly they are the same as for gcc, with an extra
> >> "-Wl," prepended).
> >>
> >> I was wondering if a) there was any chance this could be added, and b) you
> >> would be interested in seeing the modifications I made to fix this on my
> >> own. I did manage to get a .so built that tests (and seems to run) fine,
> >> by adding a few lines to m4/libtool.m4 and adding a few FFLAGS/FCFLAGS.
> > We don't have the NAG Fortran compiler installed here, and we're considering
> > moving the Fortran distribution to CMake rather than the autotools build
> > system, but haven't tackled that yet.  If you have modifications to the
> > configure.ac file that we use with "autoreconf -i" to generate the configure
> > script, we might insert them for now, but it's unlikely we would have the
> > resources to install and maintain a NAG compiler to test that before each
> > release.
> >
> > However, if you sent us the details, I could make that available on
> > our Web site in the "Other Builds" page:
> >
> >    http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/other-builds.html
> >
> > so other NAG compiler users could find it.
> >
> > Thanks for your work and offering your changes to the community.
> >
> > --Russ
> >
> > Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
> > address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: OQJ-741904
> > Department: Support netCDF
> > Priority: High
> > Status: Closed
> >
> 
> 
> 
Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OQJ-741904
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: High
Status: Closed