[Met_help] Error compiling METv1.1 - > pb2nc application

[John Halley Gotway]

Luis,

OK, I think I've figured it out.  And really it's not anything you're doing wrong.  It's our fault.
It is a problem in your build of BUFRLIB.  Two of the Fortran files in BUFRLIB that were supposed to be built, were not actually getting built.

For some reason, the version of BUFRLIB to which we point users has changed.  Two of the files have been renamed:
- From "irev.f" to "irev.F"
- From "wrdlen.f" to "wrdlen.F"

When we build BUFRLIB using "*.f", it's missing those file that end in ".F".

This is the first I've heard of this change.  Please try rebuilding your BUFRLIB one more time using the following 3 commands (note the addition of the *.F):
      pgcc -c -DUNDERSCORE *.c
      pgf77 -c -DUNDERSCORE -Mnosecond_underscore *.f *.F
      ar crv libbufr.a *.o

And then try rebuilding MET.  Please let me know if that fixes the problem.

We'll need to update our build instructions for users to accommodate this change.

Thanks for helping to uncover this issue!

John

Luis Carvalheiro wrote:
> John:
> 
> It's sad that i can't use MET yet...
> Disabling the build of pb2nc is not, in my point of view, a pleasant
> option, since i wanted to do model evaluation with station data. Maybe i
> have to go back to my old intention of building some matlab code to
> obtain some statistical validation parameters (but i have to be honest
> and say that i'm failing to obtain the 4 nearest grid points to a
> general lat/lon...)
> 
> I've uploaded the libbufr.a file to the rap ftp server.
> 
> Thank you for your kind help
> Regards,
> Luis
> 
> 
> John Halley Gotway wrote:
>> Luis,
>>
>> Hmmm.  I was hoping to see some warning or error messages in those log files that might better explain what's going on, but I didn't.
>>
>> The only "workaround" would be to skip the compilation of the PB2NC tool.  That can be accomplished by editing the top-level MET Makefile as follows:
>> DISABLE_PB2NC = 1
>>
>> If you don't mind, could you copy your BUFRLIB library archive file to our anonymous ftp site.  I'd like to see exactly what's defined in there.  You'd do this as follows:
>> (1) cd /home/luis/modelos/BUFRLIB
>> (2) ftp ftp.rap.ucar.edu
>> (3) username = anonymous
>> (4) password = "your email address"
>> (5) cd incoming/irap/johnhg
>> (6) put libbufr.a
>> (7) bye
>>
>> If you're able to post this file, please let me know, so I can go take a look at it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>>