[ncl-install] empty ncl file

[Mary Haley]

Hi Luis,

Sorry I didn't respond sooner.  Your message had been held for approval and
I didn't notice the other message that came through. It's been a busy few
days!

It looks like the "szip" library is not being found.  If you look at the
make-output file and search for the text " -o ncl ", you will see the final
step where the "ncl" executable is getting compiled.  If you then look at
the next few lines, you'll see the error:

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lsz
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [ncl] Error 1


The szip library is required for the HDF5 stuff.  You can get the szip
library from the same place that you downloaded HDF5:

https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html

--Mary


On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:13 PM, Luis Cebamanos <luiceur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> Any idea of what is happening?
>
> Regards,
> Luis
>
>
> On 26/09/2017 15:21, Mary Haley wrote:
>
> Luis,
>
> It would help if we could see the output from your build, and know more
> about what compilers you are trying to use.
>
> The "ncl" executable is the thing that is most likely to fail, because it
> has so many potential dependencies (NetCDF, HDF4, GRIB, HDF5, HDF-EOS,
> GDAL, etc).
>
> Can you provide:
>
> 1. The make-output file from running "make Everything"
> 2. The file $NCARG/config/Site.local
> 3. If this is a LINUX system, the file $NCARG/config/LINUX
> 4. If this is not a LINUX system, then whatever config file you are using
> in $NCARG/config
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:01 AM, Luis Cebamanos <luiceur at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have been trying to install NCL to our SGI system and although most of
>> the binaries are installed, I cannot use the NCL binary. The use of this
>> does not report any error or warning, just nothing. And the file command
>> reports the file is empty:
>> $file ncl/bin/ncl
>> ncl/bin/ncl: empty
>>
>>
>> Any ideas of what is happening here?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Luis
>>
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