[ncl-install] Error compiling Ictranc

[Rick Grubin]

Hi Tristan

> I 'm trying to compile NCL 5.0 with Intel Fortan & C compiler.  Idt  
> doesn't display anything (just say "translator aborted"). Seem that's
> something wrong about 'ictrans'.
>
> Indeed ictrans's compilation crash with "(.text+0x6eb5): undefined  
> reference to `for_cpystr`"

'for_cpystr' is a symbol from the Intel Fortran compiler's library  
'libifcore'

> Intel(R) C Compiler for applications running on IA-32, Version 10.1
> Build 20070913 Package ID: l_cc_p_10.1.008
> Intel(R) Fortran Compiler for applications running on IA-32, Version
> 10.1    Build 20070913 Package ID: l_fc_p_10.1.008
> [...]
>
> icc -mp -ansi  -O    -o ictrans main.o
> [...] -L/opt/1/intel_cc_10.1/ia32/lib -lcxa -lifcore -lcprts -lm
>
> ../../../.././ncarview/src/lib/libictrans/libictrans.o: In function
> `giargs_':
> (.text+0x6eb5): undefined reference to `for_cpystr'
> [...]
> CTOFLIBS	= -L/opt/1/intel_cc_10.1/ia32/lib -lcxa -lifcore -lcprts -lm

It would appear that you've done this, based on the output from the  
compilation and your Makefile.  Could you
please send along your 'LINUX' config file, located in:  /path/to/ 
ncl_source_code/ncarg/config/LINUX ?

Also, as was pointed out to me by a user, strictly speaking, the  
references to libraries 'cxa' and 'cprts' are not
necessary, but shouldn't hurt either.

One other thing to verify, as we cannot duplicate your host here, is  
that there is indeed a 'libifcore.a' located
in  /opt1/intel_cc_10.1/ia32/lib  --  that directory seems, by its  
name, to refer to the Intel C compiler library, and
'libifcore.a' is an Intel Fortran compiler library.  Is there a  
directory similarly named that refers to the Fortran compiler
present in /opt1 ?

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Rick Grubin      NCAR/TDD/CISL/VETS
Visualization + Enabling Technologies
grubin at ucar.edu             303.497.1832