[Met_help] I got compiling error when I build MET using gcc!!!

[John Halley Gotway]

Xie Xin,

Sorry about those additional error messages you found.  I thought I had caught them all.

The reason for the error messages you're seeing is the difference in GNU compiler versions.  In the Debian "etch" release, the compiler version is 4.1.2.  In the Debian "lenny" test release, the
compiler version is 4.3.2.  For whatever reason, there are a handful of include files that need to be added in 4.3.2 that aren't required in 4.1.2.  And there are some additional warning messages that
show up for 4.3.2 as well.

I'm guessing that the version of the PGI compilers you're running is one we've already tested - so you didn't have any problems.  Since we do have a machine available here that's running "lenny", I
will make sure that the next version of MET compiles fine on "lenny".

Thanks for raising this issue!

John

Xie Xin wrote:
> Hi, John,
> 
> I received your two emails this morning. Thank you very much for your great help! After patching MET the previous there are no previous errors now. However, serveral 'exit() not declared' errors come. I tried to include some header files(cstdlib) in those source code. And the errors have gone. It seemed that many of the MET programs try to call some system standard function without including appropriate header file(e.g.cstdlib). If it is built with gcc, the compiler will complain. But I also found that a PGI compiler could compile it without errors.
> I doubt that whether some compiler input arguments control those including behaviours. Anyway, I hope a released METv1.2 will work fine then.
> 
> Thank you very much!
> 
> Xie Xin
> 
> 
> 
>> Xie Xin,
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>> After doing some searching, I've found out that Lenny is not actually a stable release of Debian yet.  It's currently in the "testing" phase and no date has been set yet for a "stable" release.  Since
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>> Lenny is not yet a stable release of Debian, MET isn't fully supported on it yet.
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>> However, I was able to get MET to compile on Lenny after making several changes to the include files.  I've attached the set of changes you'll need in the attached tarball.
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>> Here's what you'll need to do:
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>> (1) Unpack the METv1.1 tarball 					> tar -xvzf METv1.1.20080711.tar.gz
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>> (2) Copy the patch tarball into the top-level MET directory 	> cp METv1.1_lenny_patch.tar.gz METv1.1/.
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>> (3) Enter the top-level MET directory 				> cd METv1.1
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>> (4) Unpack the patch tarball 					> tar -xvzf METv1.1_lenny_patch.tar.gz
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>> (5) Build METv1.1 as instructed in the MET users guide.
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>>
>>
>> Also note that you'll need to use NetCDF version 3.6.3 since 3.6.2 doesn't appear to compile on Lenny.
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>> And if you grab any of the other bug fixes from the known issue page of the MET website, you may need to merge those changes with the changes that I've sent you for Lenny.  That hasn't been done yet.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> John Halley-Gotway
>>
>> johnhg at ucar.edu
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>> John Halley Gotway wrote:
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>>> Xie Xin,
>>> Thanks for sending this information.  MET should definitely be able to compile on Debain Linux.  I realize though that you're one release ahead of us.  In our division at NCAR we're currently on the
>>> Debian Etch release, which is one behind Lenny.  My guess is that there are some minor differences for MET between Etch and Lenny.
>>> We've located a machine here that has Lenny installed.  I'll try building MET on it and figure out what changes need to be made.  My goal is to figure this out by the end of the week and get you those
>>>  changes.
>>> Thanks,
>>> John
>>> Xie Xin wrote:
>>>> oh I forgot to attach the file the last time.
>>>> John Halley Gotway,
>>>> Hi, thank you very much for your reply! I unpacked the MET source code again and got directly "memcpy() not declared" error this time. No "isdigit() not declared" error again. This was quite strange. The Makefile and the log file are in the attachment. I am running a Debian (Lenny) operating system. And my g++ version information are:
>>>> g++ (Debian 4.3.2-1) 4.3.2
>>>> Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>>>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>>>> I am not sure whether my operating system was set up right. I install a base system of debian with a build-essential, gsl and f2c package installed. And I built bufrlib with no error.
>>>> Thank you much very!
>>>> Xie Xin
>>>> xiexin at lasg.iap.ac.cn
>>>>> Xie Xin,
>>>>> A few users have reported a similar error but when using the PGI compilers to compile the PB2NC tool.  I'm not aware of other users experiencing the problem you're seeing.
>>>>> Could you please send me a copy of the Makefile you're using as well as all of the output from "make"?
>>>>> Please do the following from the top-level METv1.1 directory:
>>>>>> make clean
>>>>>> make >& make_met.log&
>>>>> And send me a copy of "make_met.log".
>>>>> Also, can you tell me what type of operating system you're running, and which version of the GNU compilers you're using:
>>>>>> g++ --version
>>>>> Hopefully we can get this figured out.
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> John Halley Gotway
>>>>> johnhg at ucar.edu
>>>>> Xie Xin wrote:
>>>>>> hi,
>>>>>> According to the manual, I have set up all the needed libs and began to
>>>>>> build MET. I want to use gcc so I cp the Makefile_gnu to Makefile.
>>>>>> However, I got error when I make.
>>>>>> *** Making vx_analysis_util Library ***
>>>>>> /usr/bin/g++ analysis_utils.cc -Wall -Wshadow -static -c -I..
>>>>>> analysis_utils.cc: In function `int all_digits (const char *)':
>>>>>> analysis_utils.cc:94: `isdigit' undeclared (first use this function)
>>>>>> analysis_utils.cc:94: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
>>>>>> for each function it appears in.)
>>>>>> make[3]: *** [analysis_utils.o] Error 1
>>>>>> make[2]: *** [vx_analysis_util_all] Error 2
>>>>>> make[1]: *** [libs] Error 2
>>>>>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>>>>> It seemed that function isdigit was not declared in the header files.
>>>>>> Then I found that the declaration of isdigit() is in the ctype.h so I
>>>>>> add #include "ctype.h" in anylysis_utils.cc. But I got another error
>>>>>> complaining memcpy() was not declared. I wonder if there is a serious
>>>>>> NOT-DECLARATION bug in your code. Would you give me some suggestion how
>>>>>> this could be solved?
>>>>>> Thank you very much!
>>>>>> Xie Xin
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