[ncl-install] NCAR Graphics on an IBM Sandybridge cluster

[Mary Haley]

George,

Dave is right, as of 6.1.0, cairo and dependent libraries are required for building NCL and NCAR Graphics V6.1.0 from source code (and for compiling NCAR Graphics programs).

It's usually pretty straightforward to install the required libraries for a Linux system. Please see:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/build_from_src.shtml#cairo

It says this:

You can also install many of these packages on Linux systems using a package installer like yum apt-get, orYaST, and on a Mac system using MacPorts. The package(s) to install have names like "libcairo-devel", "libpixman-devel", "libfontconfig-devel", etc. It is very likely that once you install "libcairo-devel", the other packages will get installed automatically, so check for this before you install all the packages.

Please give this a try and let us know if it works. I'd like to improve the documentation if more information is needed.

Thanks,

--Mary

On Dec 11, 2012, at 10:03 AM, David Brown wrote:

> Hi George,
> Yes I think it is true that cairo and various libraries it depends on are required for NCL as well as for NCAR Graphics beginning with 6.1.0. 
> -dave
> 
> 
> On Dec 10, 2012, at 4:40 PM, George Vandenberghe wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I downloaded NCL 6.0 source and built it with both ifort and gfortran. A 
>> previous message asked if idt was removed but it wasn't. I had a build 
>> error because we don't have an Xaw.h include on our system. Other 
>> utilities and the ncar graphics libraries seemed to work. However 
>> management wants NCL 6.1. I downloaded this and built with the default 
>> gfortran. It now needs cairo, expat, bz2, and pixman-1 libraries to test 
>> ncargex wmex11. Are these now fundamental for NCAR Graphics 
>> functionality with RedHat Linux on Intel chips  so I should ask my 
>> admins to install them on my system? Thanks for response.
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