[ncl-install] cannot find -lexpat

[Mary Haley]

Please see our release notes for V6.1.0, which indicates some changes to compiling NCAR Graphics codes.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/prev_releases.shtml#CompilationChanges6.1.0

If you are just using "ncl", then you don't need to worry about installing these libraries, unless the "ncl" executable starts complaining about dependencies (it shouldn't do this).

--Mary

On Nov 22, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Mr. Darwin G. Adams (Contractor) <adamsdg.ctr at afrl.hpc.mil> wrote:

> I have tried to build NCL 6.2.1 on our Linux cluster and get a failure 
> during compilation when I test it that seems to be the location of the 
> expat library.
> 
> The library is installed in /lib64
> 
> predator:/app/ncar/modulefiles/ ncargex cpex08
> 
> NCAR Graphics Fortran  Example <cpex08>
> 
>   Copying cpex08.f
> 
>   Copying cpexcc.f
> 
> Compiling and linking...
> gfortran -fPIC -fno-second-underscore -O -o cpex08 cpexcc.f cpex08.f 
> -L/app/ncar/6.2.1/intel/lib -L/usr/lib64 -L/hafs_x86_64 
> -L/hafs_x86_64/lib64 -L/hafs_x86_64/devel/lib64 -lncarg -lncarg_gks 
> -lncarg_c -lX11 -lXext -lcairo -lfontconfig -lpixman-1 -lfreetype 
> -lexpat -lpng -lz -lpthread -lbz2 -lXrender
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> The compile and link failed.
> 
> 
> 
> I also tried running the 6.2.1 binary, but get the same failure during 
> compilation.
> 
> bash-4.1$ ncargex cpex08
> 
> NCAR Graphics Fortran  Example <cpex08>
> 
>   Copying cpex08.f
> 
>   Copying cpexcc.f
> 
> Compiling and linking...
> gfortran -fPIC -fno-second-underscore -O -o cpex08 cpexcc.f cpex08.f 
> -L/app/ncar/6.2.1/gcc4.4/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64 -lncarg -lncarg_gks 
> -lncarg_c -lX11 -lXext -lcairo -lfontconfig -lpixman-1 -lfreetype 
> -lexpat -lpng -lz -lpthread -lbz2 -lXrender
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lexpat
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> The compile and link failed.
> 
> 
> The expat RMS is installed.
> 
> predator:/app/ncar/modulefiles/ rpm -qil expat-2.0.1-11.el6_2.x86_64
> Name        : expat                        Relocations: (not relocatable)
> Version     : 2.0.1                             Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
> Release     : 11.el6_2                      Build Date: Fri Apr 27 
> 11:24:27 2012
> Install Date: Mon Jun 24 13:04:33 2013         Build Host: 
> x86-001.build.bos.redhat.com
> Group       : System Environment/Libraries   Source RPM: 
> expat-2.0.1-11.el6_2.src.rpm
> Size        : 198018                           License: MIT
> Signature   : RSA/8, Thu May 10 11:37:12 2012, Key ID 199e2f91fd431d51
> Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
> URL         : http://www.libexpat.org/
> Summary     : An XML parser library
> Description :
> This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat
> is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with
> the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the
> parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parsed. A
> start tag is an example of the kind of structures for which you may
> register handlers.
> /lib64/libexpat.so.1
> /lib64/libexpat.so.1.5.2
> /usr/bin/xmlwf
> 
> 
> On an older version of NCAR 5.2.1, I don't see -lexpat" in the 
> compilation.......
> 
> DG
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