[Met_help] Compiling METv2.0

John Halley Gotway johnhg at rap.ucar.edu
Mon Jul 6 11:33:08 MDT 2009


Ed,

No, you shouldn't have to.  MET doesn't use the Fortran interface to NetCDF and there's no Fortran in GSL... so those compilations should be fine.

You should just need to recompile BUFRLIB and then MET.

Just let me know if you run across any more errors.

Thanks,
John

Ed Warnken wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> Just wondering if I also have to re-compile netcdf and gsl?
> 
> John Halley Gotway wrote:
>> Ed,
>>
>> Thanks for sending the MET compilation log.  It makes it a lot easier to diagnose the problem.
>>
>> You should be using a Fortan-77 compiler instead of a Fortran-90 compiler.  So in the top-level MET Makefile, try setting "FC" to the "pgf77" compiler.  Also, you'll need to recompile BUFRLIB using
>> the same "pgf77" compiler.  You could use the following 3 commands to compile BUFRLIB:
>>
>>    pgcc -c -DUNDERSCORE *.c
>>    pgf77 -c -DUNDERSCORE -Mnosecond_underscore *.f *.F
>>    ar crv libbufr.a *.o
>>
>> These are taken from the METv2.0 online tutorial: http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/support/online_tutorial/METv2.0/compilation/req_libs.php
>>
>> I've compiled MET using PGI versions 6 and 7, but not version 8 - to which we don't have access yet.  I'll be interested to hear how it goes.
>>
>> Thanks and good luck,
>> John Halley Gotway
>> johnhg at ucar.edu
>>
>>
>> Ed Warnken wrote:
>>   
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm running into issues when compiling METv2.0.  I've attached the 
>>> make_met.log file to this email for you.  The system I'm trying install
>>> this on is RHEL5 32bit.  I've compiled the BUFRLIB, GSL-1.12 and
>>> netcdf-3.6.3 using the portland (ver 8.0-2) fortran compilers.  Thank
>>> you for your time.
>>>
>>> Ed Warnken
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>>> Phone 303-497-7264
>>>
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