[ncl-install] Install issues on OS X

Wed Nov 1 09:03:57 MDT 2017

Hi,

I provide support for our group, and we have seem to have a problem with
getting NCL running on either OS X 10.12 or 10.13 (Sierra and High Sierra)

Using "conda" I can get a functional NCL 6.3.0 install working. However,
the present conda images (or whatever you call them, environments?) for
6.4.0 have a whole slew of unmet dependencies. I managed to update GSL,
only to be then bit by a libkea version mismatch.

Anyway, leaving conda behind (at least we can run 6.3.0, but not NCAR
Graphics), here's a run down on some of my initial troubleshooting with
installation of 6.4.0 on the latest OS X (10.13.1) box. I've installed gcc
and am using that instead of the Xcode stuff. The same stuff happens with
OS X 10.12.

Using gcc-7.1-bin.tar, gfortran-7.1-bin.tar and
ncl_ncarg-6.4.0-MacOS_10.12_64bit_gnu530.tar.gz

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ which ncl

/usr/local/ncl-6.4.0/bin/ncl

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ ncl -V

6.4.0

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ otool -L `which ncl`

/usr/local/ncl-6.4.0/bin/ncl:

/usr/lib/libcurl.4.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version
9.0.0)

/usr/lib/libssl.0.9.8.dylib (compatibility version 0.9.8, current version
0.9.8)

/usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.8.dylib (compatibility version 0.9.8, current
version 0.9.8)

/System/Library/Frameworks/LDAP.framework/Versions/A/LDAP (compatibility
version 1.0.0, current version 2.4.0)

/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version
7.0.0)

/opt/X11/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib (compatibility version 11.0.0, current
version 11.2.0)

/opt/X11/lib/libXrender.1.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current
version 5.0.0)

/usr/lib/libbz2.1.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version
1.0.5)

/opt/X11/lib/libXpm.4.dylib (compatibility version 16.0.0, current version
16.0.0)

/opt/X11/lib/libX11.6.dylib (compatibility version 10.0.0, current version
10.0.0)

/opt/X11/lib/libXext.6.dylib (compatibility version 11.0.0, current version
11.0.0)

/usr/local/lib/libgfortran.3.dylib (compatibility version 4.0.0, current
version 4.0.0)

/usr/local/lib/libquadmath.0.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 1.0.0)

/usr/local/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current
version 7.21.0)

/usr/local/lib/libgomp.1.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current
version 2.0.0)

/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version
1238.0.0)

/usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current
version 1.0.0)

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ env | grep NCARG

NCARG_ROOT=/usr/local/ncl-6.4.0

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ which gcc

/usr/local//bin/gcc

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ which gfortran

/usr/local//bin/gfortran

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ gfortran --version

GNU Fortran (GCC) 7.1.0

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ gcc --version

gcc (GCC) 7.1.0

This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO

warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

But to get "ncl -V" to work, which it didn't with either the 10.12 or 10.13
OS X installs,  I did:

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ ncl -V

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libgfortran.3.dylib

  Referenced from: /usr/local/ncl-6.4.0/bin/ncl

  Reason: image not found

Abort trap: 6

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ sudo bash

bash-3.2# cd /usr/local/lib

bash-3.2# ln libgfortran.3.dylib libgfortran.dylib

ln: libgfortran.3.dylib: No such file or directory

bash-3.2# ln libgfortran.dylib libgfortran.3.dylib

bash-3.2# exit

exit

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ ncl -V

6.4.0

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ ng4ex xy02n -clean

NCAR Graphics NCL Example <xy02n>

  Copying xy02n.ncl

  Copying xy02.res

Running NCL...

 Copyright (C) 1995-2017 - All Rights Reserved

 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

 NCAR Command Language Version 6.4.0

 The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.

 See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.

At line 382 of file ngseti.f

Internal Error: get_unit(): Bad internal unit KIND

ncl failed.

I get the Internal Error thing with gcc and the Xcode version of gcc.

And if I use conda (after I've updated gsl) I get this:

IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ source activate ncl_stable
(ncl_stable) IBES4iMac:Desktop hj11$ ncl -V
dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libkea.1.4.7.dylib
  Referenced from:
/Users/hj11/miniconda3/envs/ncl_stable/lib/libgdal.20.dylib
  Reason: Incompatible library version: libgdal.20.dylib requires version
1.4.7 or later, but libkea.1.4.7.dylib provides version 1.4.0
Abort trap: 6

Cheers

-- 
Henry Johnson, Ph.D
Systems Manager
Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
<http://www.brown.edu/academics/institute-environment-society/>
IBES RM 258
401 863 5431
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