<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://44/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>If you plan to just use NCL, then don't worry about the fact that "ncargex cpex08" failed. You only need this to work if you plan to write NCAR Graphics C or Fortran programs and compile them.</div><div><br></div><div>If you really want to get this to work, then it looks like either your compiler is finding the wrong Xext library on your system, or else you have an incorrect installation of it.</div><div><br></div><div>You didn't include the full output from "ncargex cpex08", so I'm not sure what "-L" paths it is using, but my guess it that it needs "-L/usr/lib64" on the compile line.</div><div><br></div><div>You might try editing $NCARG_ROOT/bin/ncargf77 </div><div><br></div><div>and modify the line that looks something like this:</div><div><br></div><div><div>set syslibdir = "-L/usr/lib"</div><div><br></div><div>to have something like this:</div><div><br></div><div><div>set syslibdir = "-L/usr/lib64"</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The "ncargf77" command gets called by the "ncargex" command, so once you make this change and save the file, try running the "ncargex cpex08 -clean" command again.</div><div><br></div><div>--Mary</div><div><br></div><div><div>On Jul 3, 2013, at 4:31 PM, "Doraiswamy, Prakash" <<a href="mailto:pdoraiswamy@rti.org">pdoraiswamy@rti.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Hi,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I downloaded the following binary version of the NCL/NCARG package:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">ncl_ncarg-6.1.2.Linux_RHEL6.2_x86_64_nodap_gcc472.tar.gz<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">and placed the extracted folders in /usr/local and updated NCARG_ROOT path in my cshrc file.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">When I tested the installation: “ng4ex gsun01n” worked fine, but the ncarg test “ncargex cpex08” failed. Here is the error message I am getting:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.4.6/../../../libXext.so when searching for –lXext<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libXext.so when searching for –lXext<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">/usr/bin/ld: cannot find –lXext<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Collect2: ld returned 1 exit status<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">The compile and link failed.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I see the following files installed when I do ls *<b>Xext</b>* in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">/usr/lib/libXext.so (symbolic link to so.6.4.0)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">/usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (symbolic link)<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">/usr/lib/libXext.so.6.4.0<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">/usr/lib64/libXext.so.6.4.0<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I have RHEL6 on my cluster. gcc –v returns “gcc version 4.4.6 20120305 (Red Hat 4.4.6-4) (GCC)”<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Can you please guide as to where the problem might be? I even tried with the binary ending in gcc446.tar.gz, but still got the same message. Thanks for your help.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Prakash<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">************************************************<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Prakash Doraiswamy, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Research Environmental Scientist-2<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Environmental & Industrial Sciences Division<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">RTI International<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">3040 East Cornwallis Road<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Post Office Box 12194<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Ph: 919-990-8648<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">e-mail:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:pdoraiswamy@rti.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">pdoraiswamy@rti.org</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">************************************************<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>ncl-install mailing list<br>List instructions, subscriber options, unsubscribe:<br><a href="http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-install" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/ncl-install</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>