[Met_help] MET2.0 Installation Problem

[John Halley Gotway]

Prashant,

Actually no, this does not look like the 64-bit issue for BUFRLIB.  On 64-bit machines, we're usually able to get BUFRLIB and the MET PB2NC tool to compile, but we sometimes have runtime issues
resulting in an error message from PB2NC looking something like:
 **************BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT*****************
 BUFRLIB: OPENBF - FIRST 4 BYTES READ FROM RECORD IN INPUT FILE CONNECTED TO UNIT  11 NOT 'BUFR', DOES NOT CONTAIN BUFR DATA
 **************BUFR ARCHIVE LIBRARY ABORT*****************

Actually, I was able to build and run MET (including PB2NC) on a 64-bit machine this morning using the GNU compilers.  So I'm hopeful that we can get it work for you as well.

The problem you're having is in linking to standard compiler libraries.  The linker can't find some definitions for things like "isalnum", "isalpha", and so on.  So it uses the ones defined in:
/usr/include/c++/4.1.2/cctype

When building with the GNU compilers, these are defined in the standard C-library: libc.a, and the compilers know where to find them.  And the actual error message you're seeing is that the linker
can't find symbols for _ISupper, _ISlower, and so on.

It looks like there's some issue with the configuration of the compilers you're using.

Do you have the GNU compilers, g++ and gfortran, available on your machine.  If so, I'd recommend trying to build with those.

Thanks,
John

Prashant Kumar wrote:
> Dear John
> 
> I installed MET2.0 in icc (ICC) 10.1 20070913 and ifort (IFORT) 10.1 20070913 
> version. I am using 64bit intel with Linux OS.
> When i disable the pb2nc option its install successfully all the remaing 
> executable, otherwise its give error in installation. I also attached the log 
> file for your consideration.  
> Is this the problem due to bufrlib , which i tried to install as 32 and 64 
> bit both for this installation? 
> 
> Prashant
> 
> --- Original Message ---
> 
> Forwarded From: Prashant Kumar <kam3545 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 06:52:19 IST 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: John Halley Gotway <johnhg at ucar.edu>
>> Date: Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:03 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Met_help] MET2.0 Installation Problem
>> To: Prashant Kumar <kam3545 at gmail.com>
>> Cc: met_help at ucar.edu
>>
>>
>> Prahant,
>>
>> Please send us some more information about the errors you're seeing.  Go to
>> the top-level MET directory and do the following:
>>
>> cd METv2.0
>> make clean
>> make >& make_met.log
>>
>> And then send me that file "make_met.log".  That will help me see the error
>> you're encountering.
>>
>> Also, what operating system are you running?  And what version of the intel
>> compilers are you using?  Try typing 'icc --version' and 'ifort --version'
>> to see the version numbers.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John Halley Gotway
>> johnhg at ucar.edu
>>
>> Prashant Kumar wrote:
>>> Dear Sir
>>>
>>> I am trying to install MET2.0 in Linux using icc and ifort compiler. I
>>> successfully installed the required library bufrlib, netcdf , gsl and f2c.
>>> when i give the make command its create problem in pb2nc.
>>>
>>> Please give me some appropriate solution.
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> prashant
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> -- 
>> Prashant Kumar
>> Scientist-C
>> Atmospheric Sciences Division
>> Meteorology and Oceanography Group
>> Remote Sensing Applications Area
>> Space Applications Centre
>> Indian Space Research Organisation
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>>
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> 
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