[ncl-install] Conda Install Report [UPDATE]

[HAVENER, KEVIN F GS-12 USAF ACC 14 WS/WXED]

I think I've figured out the problem with the conda install of ncl.  I am using Fedora 23.  The ncl-6.3.0 package for that platform available from the Redhat repository sets several NCAR_* environmental variables.  Those confused the conda install by installing additional paths beside NCARG_ROOT, which the conda install/source activate did manage to change.  In addition to NCARG_ROOT, the Fedora package sets:

NCARG_FONTCAPS
NCARG_GRAPHCAPS
NCARG_DATABASE
NCARG_LIB
NCARG_NCARG

And I think NCARG_LIB and NCARG_NCARG conflicted with the conda install.  What NCARG environment variables should be set by the Fedora package?  Just NCARG_ROOT, right.  The others are from long, long ago, right?

If anyone else is following this, you have to uninstall the Fedora ncl package, and reboot.  I could not locate where the rpm package sets the ncl environment variables.  Or you can unset them for a single session.  If anyone can clear up for me what the environment variables should be, I will file a bug report against the Red Hat package.  They need to change their recipe.

After fixing this, the examples ran correctly.  Now should I expect NCAR Graphics to work, because it didn't?  It failed to build the cpex08.f file with:
F951: Internal compiler error:  Illegal instruction.
According to "which gcc", it tried to use the 4.8.5 from the conda ncl_test environment and not the newer system gcc.

Kevin Havener

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From: ncl-install-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:ncl-install-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of HAVENER, KEVIN F GS-12 USAF ACC 14 WS/WXED
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 12:12 PM
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Subject: [ncl-install] Conda Install Report

I created an environment and installed ncl under my personal conda python 2.7.10 environment.  Install went fine as far as I can tell.

Was surprised to see conda-ncl install a Python3 environment.  Good job.
Tried to run the example suite as a test:
  ncl -V:   r16433            ;;expected
  ng4ex gsun01n: resource </usr/share/ncarg/resfile> does not exist  ;;unexpected

Shouldn't the test/example suite run?  I did check to make sure that I was running the right ncl.

As an aside:

Same issue with pyngl/pynio.  Install went well.  Examples didn't run with "libjpeg.so.8 not found" during VD_create vdatas .  Here I tried to run the examples by using the run-all-ex.sh in the ~/anaconda2/envs/pyngl_test/share directory.  Seems like the pynglex script on the website is outdated/not included?


Kevin Havener

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