[ncl-install] Building NCL from source

[ashwin .D]

Hi Kevin,
              it is still failing. It is looking for local library support
i.e. /usr/X11R6/lib64 and it is not finding it in my machine and I am not
sure what is local library search here.

Regarding your question on why I am want to build from scratch. Mary Haley
probably remembers but way back in 2014 she had to give me a special
precompiled binary file for Ubuntu 14.04. So I wanted to avoid that by
building my own version.

Regards,
Ashwin.

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 3:02 AM, Kevin Hallock <hallock at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Ashwin,
>
> In order to build NCL, we usually suggest running “make Everything” in
> order to build all of the necessary components for a complete NCL
> installation. Please see our documentation on building from source:
> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Download/build_from_src.shtml
>
> When you run the Configure script, the second prompt asks for a “Parent
> installation directory” to install NCL to:
> Parent installation directory : /usr/local/ncarg
> Enter Return (default), new directory, or q(quit) > /path/to/install/ncl
>
> The default is “/usr/local/ncarg”, but you can change this to any
> directory you want (note that the NCL binary will be installed to the “bin”
> subdirectory of the directory you specify, so “/usr/local/ncarg/bin” by
> default or “/path/to/install/ncl/bin” in my example). You can also define
> the installation directory in the file “config/Site.local”:
> #define YmakeRoot /path/to/install/ncl
>
> Building NCL with “make Everything” should install NCL when it’s done
> compiling, but if your user account does not have write privileges to the
> installation directory (this might be a problem for “/usr/local/ncarg”) you
> may need to run “sudo make install” to complete the installation process.
>
> Additionally, it looks like your build did not run successfully. If you
> run the command “grep -C3 'error' $logfile” , where $logfile is your make
> log (“logs” if you use the file you attached to your email), you’ll see
> several errors related to missing libraries, for example:
> gfortran -fPIC -fno-second-underscore -fno-range-check -fopenmp  -O    -o
> tdpackdemo TdpackDemo.o -L../../../.././ncarg2d/src/libncarg -lncarg
> -L../../../.././ncarg2d/src/libncarg_gks -lncarg_gks
> -L../../../.././common/src/libncarg_c -lncarg_c -lcairo -lXrender
> -lfontconfig -lpixman-1 -lfreetype -lexpat -lpng -lz -liconv -lbz2 -lpng
> -lz -L/usr/local/ncarg/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib64  -lX11 -lXext
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -liconv
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lbz2
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Makefile:495: recipe for target 'tdpackdemo' failed
> make[4]: *** [tdpackdemo] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory '/home/winash12/meteorology_
> project/ncl_ncarg-6.4.0/ncarg2d/src/bin/tdpackdemo'
>
> In this case, it appears as though the iconv and bzip2 libraries were not
> found by the compiler. You will likely need to install these (and other
> packages) using your system’s package manager (assuming you’re using Linux)
> or build them from source. If they are already installed, you may need to
> adjust the “-I”/“include” and “-L”/“lib” directory paths in
> config/Site.local (these can also be set while running the Configure
> script).
>
> Finally, out of curiosity is there a reason that you’ve chosen to build
> NCL from source instead of installing a pre-compiled binary? I’d be glad to
> continue helping you build NCL from source, but if you do not explicitly
> need to build it yourself it is often much easier to install an NCL binary
> tarball.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Kevin
>
> On Jan 14, 2018, at 10:57 PM, ashwin .D via ncl-install <
> ncl-install at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>           I am trying to build NCL 6.4 from source. Firstly there seems to
> be no .configure file and it is replaced by a Configure file. It does
> compile without any problems but I am not sure where the executables are. I
> have enclosed the logs obtained by typing make install.
> Do you see any issues ? I do not know how to install under /usr/local/bin.
>
> Regards,
> Ashwin.
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