[ncl-install] Problem with Building from Source Code

[Mary Haley]

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the make-output file.

This is the error that's causing the problem:

/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lXrender

I'm surprised there's no "error" associated with this.

You need to have the X11 development libraries installed on your system, and make sure that they can be found.

Do you have libXrender? You can type this to find out:

locate libXrender.so

If you don't have this file, then please see:

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/linux.shtml#InstallSoftware

If you do have this file, then you may need to edit your $NCARG/config/Site.local file and add the path to it to the "#define LibSearch" line. For example, if you see the file "/usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so", then you need to add "-L/usr/lib64" to the end of the line:

#define LibSearch …[snip]…. -L/usr/X11R6/lib

You will need to run "make Everything" after making this change.

--Mary

On Feb 28, 2014, at 5:54 PM, Shi-Pei Hsu <hsushipei1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> I tried to build NCL-6.1.2 from source code but I failed. The OS I'm running is x86_64 SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 (SP2) with gcc-4.1.2.
> All the external software are successfully installed(I guess) expect Vis5D+(Won't use it). I install NCL in a non-standard place (e.g. /data1/hsu/software/NCL ) since I don't have permission to be root.
> 
> I followed the installation step: run $ ./configure and then $ make Everything >& make-output &. After the make was finished, I couldn't find the executable ncl binary in $NCARG_ROOT/bin. Then I checked the "make-output" file for any "fatal" and "error". I can't find any "fatal" and all the "error" I found was something like "error.c", "error.o", or "Making Makefiles in ./ncarg2d/man/error_handling".
> 
> So, I don't know what happened. 
> 
> P.S.: I've attached the "make-output" in this email
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> Sincerely,
> Jack Hsu
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