[ncl-install] Installing ncarg-v4.0 on OpenSuse 11.3

[Dennis Shea]

FYI

  There are some historical error messages
  that refer to MAPCHI

  MAPCHI - ERROR EXIT FROM GQPLCI
  MAPCHI - ERROR EXIT FROM GQPMCI
  MAPCHI - ERROR EXIT FROM GQTXCI


   ====

Further: on the WWW [  Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:48 pm ]


   #if defined NCARG410 || defined NCARG422
        CALL mapchi (2,0,idsh)
   #else
        CALL mdpchi (2,0,idsh)
   #endif


On 2/17/11 11:34 AM, Mary Haley wrote:
> Hi Jemma,
>
> We make every effort to keep the user functions backwards compatible.
> With any routine that we've publicly documented, we rarely (if ever)
> change it or remove it. In fact, I'm not sure we've ever removed an
> advertied function, although we may have deprecated it.
>
> The routine you mentioned, "mapchi" is not one of our user-callable
> routines that I know of. Tell me how you're using it, and in the
> meantime I'll try to figure out what happened to it.
>
> --Mary
>
> On Feb 16, 2011, at 9:57 PM, Jemma Wu wrote:
>
>> Hi Mary,
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> I have successfully installed NCARG 5.2.1 (compiled with ifort/icc) on
>> my new server. I tested one of our old Fortran models and found that
>> there is one incompatible ncarg function (mapchi in v4.0 has been
>> changed to mdpchi in v5).
>>
>> My question is, do you know if there are many such incompatible
>> functions between ncarg.v4.0 and ncarg.v5? Since I have lots of
>> Fortran codes (~20000 subroutines) to migrate, I want to know how much
>> effort I need to solve this incompatibility problems.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jemma
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:03 AM, Mary Haley <haley at ucar.edu
>> <mailto:haley at ucar.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     On Feb 13, 2011, at 6:33 PM, Jemma Wu wrote:
>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     I have a bunch of old Fortran applications (mid 90s) which were
>>>     written with ncarg-v4.0 on an Alpha machine. Now I am trying to
>>>     migrate those Fortran programs to a new Intel Core 2 x86-64
>>>     machine installed with OpenSuse 11.3 (64 bit) OS.
>>>
>>>     I am attempting to install ncarg-v4.0 from the source code which
>>>     was saved (around mid 90s) on the old Alpha machine . I am trying
>>>     to build it with the Intel compilers (ifort and icc). I followed
>>>     the installation documentations from
>>>     http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/build_from_src.shtml. I have got
>>>     lots of compilation errors.
>>>
>>>     Before I post and ask about those compilation errors, I'd like to
>>>     ask a couple of basic questions about ncarg-v4.0.
>>>
>>>     1. Does the ncarg-v4.0 support my new hardware, operating system
>>>     and compilers?
>>
>>     Hi Jemma,
>>
>>     We don't generally go back and compile older versions of NCAR
>>     Graphics on newer hardware, so I can't say for certain whether it
>>     should build as is on your newer system. This brings us to your
>>     next question:
>>
>>>     2. Is the source code of ncarg-v4.0 still available for
>>>     downloading somewhere? I suspect that my older version of the
>>>     v4.0 source code doesn't support my new environment.
>>
>>     A newer version of the source code is available, and should be
>>     backwards compatible. My suggestion is to download NCL version
>>     5.2.1, which contains the NCARG source code. There are precompiled
>>     binaries available, but not for ifort/icc. If you choose to build
>>     from source code, then you can run the "Configure" program that
>>     comes with NCL V5.2.1, and answer "no" to the "build NCL?"
>>     question. This will get you just the NCAR Graphics libraries and
>>     associated files that you got with the ncarg-v4. source in the 90s.
>>
>>     You can try downloading a precompiled binary first. Sometimes the
>>     icc/ifort compilers will work with gcc/gfortran compiled
>>     libraries, but you may have to include some additional libraries
>>     to "help" the compilation. If this fails, then you can try
>>     downloading source code.
>>
>>     To download the latest NCL precompiled binaries and/or source
>>     code, please see:
>>
>>     http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/
>>
>>     Please email me if you need help with the precompiled binaries or
>>     building from source code.
>>
>>     --Mary
>>
>>>
>>>     I appreciate your kind help.
>>>
>>>     --
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Jemma
>>>
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