[ncl-talk] Using NetCDF with WRAPIT

Dennis Shea shea at ucar.edu
Fri Jul 17 11:49:24 MDT 2020


re: " ... there seems to be a memory leak in addfile()."

Can you please provide an example?

THX

On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 11:42 AM Rick Brownrigg via ncl-talk <
ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Harry,
>
> I don't know for certain. It really looks like the compiler is not finding
> the netcdf header, and needs the equivalent of a -I/usr/local/include
> option. As you point out, WRAPIT doesn't accept that (seems like an
> oversight to me).
>
> I presume you are using gfortran?  It manual states: "The gfortran
> compiler currently does not make use of any environment variables to
> control its operation above and beyond those that affect the operation of
> gcc"
>
> With that, you might try setting CPATH:
>
> export CPATH=/usr/local/include
>
> Other than that, you might try running WRAPIT with the -d switch. This
> will show the build commands and not delete temporary outputs. From there
> you might be able to manually fix-up and run the appropriate build commands.
>
> Wish I had a better answer...
> Rick
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:32 AM Ian Harris (ENV - Staff) via ncl-talk <
> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Rick,
>>
>> WRAPIT Version: 120209
>> A syntax error occurred while parsing: include
>> COMPILING /Users/ianharris/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for
>> /Users/ianharris/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for:443: Error: Can't open
>> included file 'netcdf.inc'
>> LINKING
>> gcc: error: forverify3.o: No such file or directory
>> rm: forverify3.o: No such file or directory
>> END WRAPIT
>>
>> This is the gfortran equivalent that works:
>>
>> % gfortran -m64 -I/usr/local/include/ -L/usr/local/lib -lnetcdf
>> /usr/local/lib/libnetcdff.a ~/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for
>> also, new tree from macports:
>> % gfortran -m64 -I/opt/local/include/ -L/opt/local/lib -lnetcdf
>> /opt/local/lib/libnetcdff.a ~/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for
>>
>> Now WRAPIT doesn't like Includes, and you have to put spaces after the -L
>> and -l linkages, but:
>>
>> % WRAPIT -m64 -L /opt/local/lib -l netcdf /opt/local/lib/libnetcdff.a
>> ~/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for
>>
>> WRAPIT Version: 120209
>> A syntax error occurred while parsing: include
>> COMPILING /Users/ianharris/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for
>> /Users/ianharris/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for:442: Error: Can't open
>> included file 'netcdf.inc'
>> LINKING
>> gcc: error: forverify3.o: No such file or directory
>> rm: forverify3.o: No such file or directory
>> END WRAPIT
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Harry
>> ------------------------------
>> *From:* Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu>
>> *Sent:* 17 July 2020 17:15
>> *To:* Ian Harris (ENV - Staff) <I.Harris at uea.ac.uk>
>> *Cc:* Dennis Shea via ncl-talk <ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu>
>> *Subject:* Re: [ncl-talk] Using NetCDF with WRAPIT
>>
>>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> What do you mean by "cannot get WRAPIT to recognise the "include
>> 'netcdf.inc'""?  Are you getting a compiler error, or an error from WRAPIT
>> itself, or?  I see you have -L directives pointing to where the netcdf
>> library resides; do you need a similar -I directive to point to where the
>> header is?
>>
>> Rick
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 10:03 AM Ian Harris (ENV - Staff) via ncl-talk <
>> ncl-talk at mailman.ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I need to write NetCDF files with a Fortran subroutine, because there
>> seems to be a memory leak in addfile(). I know that was supposed to be
>> fixed years back, but I have memory usage graphs that indicate otherwise.
>> And yes, I have comprehensive deletion strategies.
>>
>> I've tried a lot of things, including reinstalling ncl, (oh, yes..),
>> NetCDF, etc, etc, but I cannot get WRAPIT to recognise the "include
>> 'netcdf.inc'" line in the subroutine. Has anyone managed this? How did you
>> link to the libraries?
>>
>> Here are a couple examples that don't work:
>>
>> WRAPIT  -L/usr/local/lib -l netcdf -L /usr/local
>> /usr/local/lib/libnetcdff.a /usr/local/lib/libnetcdf.a
>> ~/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for
>> WRAPIT -L /opt/local/lib -l netcdf -L /opt/local -l libnetcdff.a
>> ~/Programs/Fortran/forverify3.for
>>
>> ..I just chose two from dozens.
>>
>> Is it actually *possible* to have a NetCDF-aware Fortran subroutine under
>> WRAPIT?
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Harry
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