[ncl-install] Runtime error with NCL 6.2.1 on OS X 10.6.8 after upgrade

[Mary Haley]

You might have to help point to the new libraries.
Do you still get the exact same error?

What does:

locate libSystem.B.dylib

report? This should report all locations of this file.

--Mary

On May 23, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Chris Waigl wrote:

> Hi Mary,
> 
> My default gcc is 4.2, but after this happened, I also installed gcc-4.6 so its libraries should be available. This didn't change anything. 
> 
> Thanks for your help, and hope you have a good time in Albany!
> 
> Chris
> 
> On May 22, 2013, at 6:57 PM, Mary Haley wrote:
> 
>> Hi Chris,
>> 
>> Sorry for the delay in response. We are teaching a workshop in Albany this week.
>> 
>> I believe this problem is related to an incompatibility with gcc/gfortran compilers versions.
>> The NCL binary for MacOS10.6 was built with gcc/gfortran version 4.6.0.
>> 
>> What version do you have on your system?
>> 
>>   gcc --version
>>   gfortran --version
>> 
>> --Mary
>> 
>> On May 21, 2013, at 9:23 PM, Chris Waigl wrote:
>> 
>>> All,
>>> 
>>> I upgraded NCL from 6.1.0 to 6.2.1 on my Mac (OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard) by downloading the precompiled binaries (OpenDAP enabled). Everything appears to be working fine, until I try to print to png files. Code snippet:
>>> 
>>> ===
>>> outputtype = "png"
>>> ...
>>> xwks = gsn_open_wks(outputtype, "filename")
>>> === 
>>> 
>>> The error appears the first time plot is called on this workstation. Error message:
>>> 
>>> ===
>>> dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: ___emutls_get_address
>>> Referenced from: /usr/local/ncl-6.1.2/bin/ncl
>>> Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
>>> 
>>> dyld: Symbol not found: ___emutls_get_address
>>> Referenced from: /usr/local/ncl-6.1.2/bin/ncl
>>> Expected in: /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib
>>> ===
>>> 
>>> The file /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib does exist:
>>> 
>>> ===
>>> chris$ ls -lAF /usr/lib/libSystem*
>>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  6890816 Jun  7  2011 /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib*
>>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  8996800 Dec  8  2010 /usr/lib/libSystem.B_debug.dylib*
>>> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  7096080 Dec  8  2010 /usr/lib/libSystem.B_profile.dylib*
>>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       17 Apr 27  2010 /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib@ -> libSystem.B.dylib
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    75820 May 18  2009 /usr/lib/libSystemStubs.a
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    75820 May 18  2009 /usr/lib/libSystemStubs_debug.a
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    75924 May 18  2009 /usr/lib/libSystemStubs_profile.a
>>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       23 Apr  8  2011 /usr/lib/libSystem_debug.dylib@ -> libSystem.B_debug.dylib
>>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel       25 Apr  8  2011 /usr/lib/libSystem_profile.dylib@ -> libSystem.B_profile.dylib
>>> ===
>>> 
>>> The error does not occur if I print to pdf instead of png. It also didn't occur with 6.1.0 before the upgrade. 
>>> 
>>> Has anyone seen anything like this? Is this a problem with my environment or with the way the executable is compiled? 
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Chris Waigl
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