[ncl-install] ncl on solaris 10 sparc core dumps

Mary Haley haley at ucar.edu
Wed Jun 24 08:59:51 MDT 2009 

Hi Opesh,

This sounds like an optimization problem. Thanks for the debugging
effort here, as it helps determine the problem.

Try this:

  - cd $NCARG/ni/src/lib/hlu
  - Edit the "Makefile" and change all occurences of "-O" to "-g"
  - Type:
       /bin/rm Create.o
       make includes depend all install
       cd ../../ncl
       make install

This should rebuild the HLU library with optimization for "Create.c"  
taken down a notch.
Then, "ncl" will get rebuilt against the new library.

If this doesn't work, then try turning off optimization for all *.o  
files in
the HLU library with:

       make clean includes depend all install
       cd ../../ncl
       make install

--Mary

On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:15 AM, Alkara, Opesh wrote:

>
> I was not sure whether this post would go to ncl-talk or ncl- 
> install but
> since the problem was more related to how NCL was compiled, I am  
> posting
> this to ncl-install.
>
> ncl_ncargs-5.1.1 builds successfully on Solaris 10 sparc (64-bit) but
> when I try to run the binary it dumps core. I saw stack of core, found
> that 3-4 functions are being called over and over until program
> seg-faults. I am using sun studio 12.0 compiler. I removed  
> optimization
> in compilation to see if that fixes the issue but that didn't help.  
> The
> same version of NCL builds fine on solaris 10 x86 64-bit (almost with
> same C and F flags as that of sparc build). I searched for function
> _NhlCreate and NhlVACreate and found that they are defined within
> ni/src/lib/hlu/Create.c, so, I believe the hlu compilation is not  
> going
> well?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> ---------------------------------
>
> |user at delta 19:27:01 /var/tmp/ncl_studio/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1|make
>
>         NCL/NCAR Graphics - Version 5.1.1 Installation Configuration
>
> System File             Sun4Solaris
> Binary Install Directory        /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin
> Library Install Directory       /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib
> Include Install Directory       /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/include
> Manpage Install Directory       /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/man
> Config Install Directory
> /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/config
> Data Base Directory     /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/database
> Programmer Doc Dir      /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/doc
> Reloc Obj. Directory    /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/robj
> Examples Directory      /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/examples
> Tutorial Directory      /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/tutorial
> Test Directory          /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/tests
> X App. Def. Directory   /usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib/ncarg/xapp
> f77 Compiler            f90
> f77 Flags               -xarch=sparcvis -m64 -g
> -R/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib -R/usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.3 -O
> C Compiler              cc
> cc Flags                -xarch=sparcvis -m64 -g
> -R/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/lib -R/usr/local/lib/gcc-4.3.3 -O
> -I./include -I/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/include -I/usr/openwin/ 
> include
> -I/usr/dt/include -DSYSV -D_REENTRANT -DByteSwapped -D__64BIT__
> -DNeedFuncProto
> |user at delta 19:27:02 /var/tmp/ncl_studio/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1|
>
>
> root at delta:/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin # ./ncl
>  Copyright (C) 1995-2009 - All Rights Reserved
>  University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>  NCAR Command Language Version 5.1.1
>  The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>  See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> Segmentation Fault (core dumped)
> root at delta:/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin #
>
>
> root at delta:/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin # pstack core
> core 'core' of 8361:    ./ncl
>  00000001003e1834 _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f81565c, 100a68780,  
> 100c05e48, 0,
> ffffffff7f805458, 3) + 74
>  00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f81565c, 100a68780, 100c05e48,
> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>  000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf1ec0,
> ffffffff7f816060, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>  00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf2150, 101bf1ec0,
> ffffffff7f816060, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>  00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f82e33c, 100a68780,  
> 100c05e48, 2,
> ffffffff7f81e138, 3) + 9cc
>  00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f82e33c, 100a68780, 100c05e48,
> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>  000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf1af0,
> ffffffff7f82ed40, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>  00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf1d80, 101bf1af0,
> ffffffff7f82ed40, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>  00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f84701c, 100a68780,  
> 100c05e48, 2,
> ffffffff7f836e18, 3) + 9cc
>  00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f84701c, 100a68780, 100c05e48,
> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>  000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf1720,
> ffffffff7f847a20, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>  00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf19b0, 101bf1720,
> ffffffff7f847a20, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>  00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f85fcfc, 100a68780,  
> 100c05e48, 2,
> ffffffff7f84faf8, 3) + 9cc
>  00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f85fcfc, 100a68780, 100c05e48,
> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>  000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf1350,
> ffffffff7f860700, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>  00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf15e0, 101bf1350,
> ffffffff7f860700, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>  00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f8789dc, 100a68780,  
> 100c05e48, 2,
> ffffffff7f8687d8, 3) + 9cc
>  00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7f8789dc, 100a68780, 100c05e48,
> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>  000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bf0f80,
> ffffffff7f8793e0, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>  00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bf1210, 101bf0f80,
> ffffffff7f8793e0, 3, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>  00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7f8916bc, 100a68780,  
> 100c05e48, 2,
> ffffffff7f8814b8, 3) + 9cc
>
> [...snip ]
>
>  00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7ffee93c, 100a68780, 100c05e48,
> 0, 100dca310, 0) + 80
>  000000010048de48 AppInitialize (100c05000, 100dca328, 101bde5c0,
> ffffffff7ffef340, 2, ffffffffffffffff) + 128
>  00000001003e1708 CallInitialize (100c05e48, 101bde810, 101bde5c0,
> ffffffff7ffef340, 2, ffffffffffffffff) + 68
>  00000001003e218c _NhlCreate (ffffffff7ffffa4c, 100a5d8a8,  
> 100c05e48, 1,
> ffffffff7fff7418, 2) + 9cc
>  00000001003e2400 NhlVACreate (ffffffff7ffffa4c, 100a5d8a8, 100c05e48,
> 0, 100cde4f8, 1) + 80
>  0000000100069dd4 main (1, ffffffff7ffffbf8, ffffffff7ffffc08,
> ffffffff7c949468, ffffffff79700140, ffffffff79700180) + 694
>  000000010006971c _start (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) + 17c
> root at delta:/usr/local/ncl_ncarg-5.1.1/bin #
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