[Met_help] Compiling METv2.0

[John Halley Gotway]

Ed,

So you (1) rebuilt BUFRLIB using pgf77 and then (2) tried rebuilding MET. 
But you still saw the same errors.

Those errors really look like they're still coming from BUFRLIB being
compiled with pgf90.  In fact, I tried myself compiling BUFRLIB using
pgf90 and then linking a build of MET to that version of BUFRLIB.  I was
able to reproduce exactly the same error messages you're seeing.

Here's what you can do.  Execute the command:
nm /usr/local/lib/libbufr.a

That will list the contents of the BUFRLIB library to which MET is
linking.  If you see a bunch of "pgf90" strings in there, you'll know that
BUFRLIB still isn't compiled properly.

If that's the case try recompiling BUFRLIB again:
cd /usr/local/src/BUFRLIB
rm *.o *.a
pgcc -c -DUNDERSCORE *.c
pgf77 -c -DUNDERSCORE -Mnosecond_underscore *.f *.F
ar crv libbufr.a *.o
cp libbufr.a /usr/local/lib/.

And then try recompiling MET again.  I'm wondering if you did rebuild it
using pgf77, but forget to copy it over to /usr/local/lib.  That's where
you've set in the Makefile for the linker to look.

Let me know how it goes.  It looks like there may be some other errors
after the BUFRLIB ones that we'll need to address.  But let's fix this
BUFRLIB issue first.

John

> Hey John,
>
> Well I got the same errors so I'm also attaching the MET Makefile so you
> can see if I'm messing up in that too.
>
> Ed
>
> John Halley Gotway wrote:
>> 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
>>>>> NOAA/PSD
>>>>> Phone 303-497-7264
>>>>>
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>>>>>
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