[Met_help] error compiling METv2 Beta

[John Halley Gotway]

Jonathan,

Hmmm.  Good question.  It's funny, we've built this code with the PGI
compilers many times, but haven't seen that error yet.  In fact, we used
the PGI compilers during the recent MET tutorial.

The 'atoll' function converts a string to a 'long long'.  It's defined in
the GNU headers in the "stdlib.h" file.  But looking at the corresponding
header file for PGI, it's NOT defined there.  The PGI version has atoi
(integer), atof (float), and atol (long), but no atoll for some reason. 
I'm surprised that I didn't run into this error myself.

I'll talk to the developer who wrote this section of the code.  It may be
sufficient to use a long (atol, which is defined), rather than a long long
(atoll, which is not defined).

Thanks for raising this issue!

Until we sort this out, I'd say your only option would be to use the GNU
compilers if you have them available.

John

> Hello John,
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> Based on your last email, I opted to try building METv2 Beta that you
> linked to me.
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> So far, I have encountered an error in building one of the libraries as
> follows:
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> *** Making vx_util Library ***
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> /usr/local/tools/pgi-7.1-4/linux86-64/7.1-4/bin/pgCC ascii_table.cc
> -Bstatic   -c -I..
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> ascii_table.cc:
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> "ascii_table.cc", line 871: error: identifier "atoll" is undefined
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>      X = atoll(junk);
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>          ^
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> 1 error detected in the compilation of "ascii_table.cc".
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> make[3]: *** [ascii_table.o] Error 2
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> make[2]: *** [vx_util_all] Error 2
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> make[1]: *** [libs] Error 2
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> make: *** [all] Error 2
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> Any suggestions?  It appears that "atoll" was not used in MET v1.1.
>
> Jon
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