[ncl-install] Conda Install Report [UPDATE]

Wed Mar 16 13:36:19 MDT 2016

Please,

remove me from the distribution list.

regards

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Kevin Hallock <hallock at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Some of those variables *do* take precedence over $NCARG_ROOT. Those
> variables serve a purpose in this case because the Red Hat package
> maintainers choose to separate files provided by NCL into different paths
> (/usr/lib64/ncarg, /usr/share/ncarg, …) rather than keeping everything in a
> single directory (“$CONDA_ENV_PATH/lib/ncarg" in our case). As such, I do
> not believe this to be a bug in the Red Hat ncl-6.3.0 package, but rather
> an incomplete configuration of environment variables within the conda
> environment which should ideally be set automatically.
>
> Currently, only $NCARG_ROOT is set by the script
> $CONDA_ENV_PATH/etc/conda/activate.d/ncl-activate.sh, which is sourced as
> part of the “source activate ${env_name}” process. I will update the
> ncl-activate.sh and ncl-deactivate.sh scripts to set and unset the
> additional variables you mentioned in order to avoid conflicts like what
> you have experienced. This should allow for a seamless transition between
> your existing NCL runtime environment and your new Anaconda NCL environment
> without having to worry about environment variables.
>
> Please note that this will only help users who are able to run “source
> activate ${env_name}” (bash/sh/zsh only; csh/tcsh/ksh users will have to
> manually manage their environment variables).
>
> Thanks for the information,
> Kevin
>
>
> On Mar 16, 2016, at 12:29 PM, HAVENER, KEVIN F GS-12 USAF ACC 14 WS/WXED <
> kevin.havener at us.af.mil> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ncl-install-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:ncl-install-bounces at ucar.edu
> <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
> To: ncl-install at ucar.edu
> 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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