[ncl-install] Fwd: Have anybody installed ncarg on Mac OS 10.6

guangshan chen gchen9 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 8 21:59:02 MST 2009


Hi Mary,

I figure out how to let ncl work on my Mac OS X 10.6 (intel).

First, download the pre-compiled ncl binary file.
Second, install gfortran.

Note:It seems that the precompiled binaries of gfortran from http// 
hpc.sourecforge.net or http://r.research.att.com/tools
have problems. So I use fink and macports to install gcc4.3.

I got ncl working.

Maybe when I have time, I would like to try install all the  
dependencies of ncl one by one and then install ncl from source.

By the way, I found fink has ncl too. But the version is 4.2. I sent  
email to fink developers to ask could they update ncl
form version 4.2 to 5.1.1. They told me that ncl currently has no fink  
maintainer. I think if you could be a ncl fink maintainer
, it would be our happiness.

I would forward their emails to you.

Thanks.

Guangshan
On Nov 6, 2009, at 10:25 PM, Guangshan Chen wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> I have backuped all my data and cleaned my hard disk for installing  
> a total new Mac OS X 10.6 system.
>
> I installed Xcode from the install DVD. Now I have gcc-4.2 and  
> gfortran-4.2. I will give try to precompiled binary file.
> And then try install the dependencies one by one.
>
> Keeping letting you know.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Guangshan
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
> On Nov 6, 2009, at 11:21 AM, guangshan chen wrote:
>
>> Hi Mary,
>>
>> Thanks for your reply.
>>
>> Sourish Basu suggested me to use the precompiled NCL. So I  
>> downloaded a precompiled NCL binary for the website.
>> There is "ncl" inside and it works.  But when I can not use WRAPIT.
>>
>> Here is the information when I use WRAPIT:
>>
>> guangshan% WRAPIT calculate_distance_1d.f
>>
>> WRAPIT Version: 091416
>> COMPILING calculate_distance_1d.f
>> LINKING
>> ld: warning: in calculate_distance_1d.o, file is not of required  
>> architecture
>> END WRAPIT
>
> Guangshan,
>
> Can you run:
>
> WRAPIT -d calculate_distance_1d.f
>
> This will echo all the compilation that's taking place. I'm not  
> familiar with MacOS 10.6, but this may be a 32/64 compilation  
> issue.  The NCL you have is 32-bit, and the compilation may be 64-bit.
>
>>
>>
>> I first email this problem to Macport. Nobody answers to me. Do you  
>> know who built this ncarg port for Macport?
>
> No, I'm sorry, I don't, but there's some information that comes up  
> if you google "macport ncl".
>
>
>> I built all the external dependencies one by one using Macport. I  
>> think this is why I got the same problem as I build from source  
>> code. Unfortunately, I deleted the make-outfile now. I will rebuild  
>> it sometime today and send it to you offline.
>>
>> By the way, when I tried to build the dependencies of NCL, some  
>> dependencies I could not build successfully. What is the pre- 
>> required compliers or dependencies to build the dependencies of NCL?
>
> These are listed at:
>
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/build_from_src.shtml#BuildNonOptionalSoftware
>
> This list is of the non-optional software, which includes NetCDF,  
> JPEG, zlib, and HDF4.
>
> The following section covers the optional software, like GRIB2, HDF- 
> EOS, and Udunits.
>
> There's detailed information about how to build each package.
>
> The required compilers are basically gcc and gfortran. You can use  
> other compilers, but you will always need a basic C compiler and a  
> Fortran 77 compiler.
>
> --Mary
>
>
>>
>> Guangshan
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Mary Haley wrote:
>>
>>> Guangshan,
>>>
>>> If you downloaded a precompiled NCL binary from the website, it  
>>> would definitely have "ncl" in $NCARG_ROOT/bin, or we would have  
>>> heard from a lot more users by now.
>>>
>>> The MacPort version is trying to build NCL from source code, so it  
>>> doesn't surprise me if it failed on your system. There are a lot  
>>> of external dependencies for NCL to be built correctly, and if any  
>>> one of these fail, then the build of the "ncl" executable is going  
>>> to fail as well. I'm not familiar with the MacPort build, so I'm  
>>> not sure what might have caused it to fail. However, I would  
>>> double-check that all the external dependencies built successfully.
>>>
>>> If you downloaded NCL source code from the ESG website and tried  
>>> to build it yourself, then chances are that it failed because of  
>>> the external dependencies as well.
>>>
>>> If you tried to build NCL from source code, then please email me  
>>> the "make-output" file offline. I'll take a look to see what the  
>>> problem is.
>>>
>>> --Mary
>>>
>>> On Nov 6, 2009, at 12:24 AM, guangshan chen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I try two ways to install ncl on Mac OS 10.6.
>>>>
>>>> One is easy way using Macport. It shows there is no problem to  
>>>> install it. But I can not find ncl command in bin directory. I  
>>>> found the follows, such as WRAPIT.
>>>>
>>>> The other way is to following the NCL website to install it. I  
>>>> got the same.
>>>>
>>>> Have anybody met the same thing? Any suggestion?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Guangshan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>
>>>>> From: guangshan chen <gchen9 at gmail.com>
>>>>> Date: November 5, 2009 9:07:40 PM CST
>>>>> To: macports-users at lists.macosforge.org
>>>>> Subject: Have anybody installed ncarg on Mac OS 10.6
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> Today I install ncarg on my Mac OS 10.6 using Macport. It shows  
>>>>> that ncarg has been installed.
>>>>> But when I check /opt/local/bin, there is no "ncl" executable  
>>>>> command created.
>>>>>
>>>>> guangshan% sudo port install ncarg
>>>>> --->  Computing dependencies for ncarg
>>>>> --->  Fetching ncarg
>>>>> --->  Verifying checksum(s) for ncarg
>>>>> --->  Extracting ncarg
>>>>> --->  Configuring ncarg
>>>>> --->  Building ncarg
>>>>> --->  Staging ncarg into destroot
>>>>> --->  Installing ncarg @5.1.1_1
>>>>> --->  Activating ncarg @5.1.1_1
>>>>> --->  Cleaning ncarg
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The following binary file installed:
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin  1742552 Nov  5 21:00 nnalg*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   451112 Nov  5 21:00 rascat*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    28528 Nov  5 21:00 ncgm2cgm*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin      533 Nov  5 21:00 ncarvversion*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    63272 Nov  5 21:00 med*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   712840 Nov  5 21:00 ictrans*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin     1003 Nov  5 21:00 gcaps*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin      851 Nov  5 21:00 fcaps*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   653888 Nov  5 21:00 ctrans*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin      846 Nov  5 21:00 ctlib*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    28600 Nov  5 21:00 cgm2ncgm*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   448928 Nov  5 21:00 rasview*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   433624 Nov  5 21:00 rasstat*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   420496 Nov  5 21:00 rassplit*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   433728 Nov  5 21:00 rasls*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   429936 Nov  5 21:00 rasgetpal*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin   442408 Nov  5 21:00 ras2ccir601*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    38960 Nov  5 21:00 ncgmstat*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    73048 Nov  5 21:00 idt*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    59272 Nov  5 21:00 wrapit77*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin     6322 Nov  5 21:00  
>>>>> scrip_check_input*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin     2234 Nov  5 21:00 nhlf90*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin     2234 Nov  5 21:00 nhlf77*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin     2438 Nov  5 21:00 nhlcc*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    30531 Nov  5 21:00 ng4ex*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin     2540 Nov  5 21:00 ncl_grib2nc*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    14179 Nov  5 21:00 ncl_filedump*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    47762 Nov  5 21:00 ncl_convert2nc*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x    2 root  admin    26600 Nov  5 21:00 WRAPIT*
>>>>> drwxr-xr-x  803 root  admin    27302 Nov  5 21:01 ./
>>>>
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