[Wrf-users] RE: Probelm with ungrib.exe on Mac OS X [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

Mon Feb 2 15:29:17 MST 2009

If the problem that you have is related to the fact that the OS X file system is case insensitive then there are at least two ways of getting around this:

1. Partition your hard disk, and format one of the partitions (NOT the one that will hold your system files) as Mac OS Extended (case sensitive). This would require reinstalling your system and all software.

2. Easier and works just as well:  Use Disk Utility to create a new blank disk image, and then use Disk Utility to format the disk image as Mac OS Extended (case sensitive) or Mac OS Extended (case sensitive,journaled). This takes only a minute or so and does not interfere with the rest of your system. Then install all your WRF software on this disk image. The only disadvantage to this method over method 1 is that when you restart your Mac you will have to open the disk image file each time in order to mount the volume. However this is a very minor irritation.

I have used both these methods to install WRF using both g95 and portland compilers and they both work. Conversely, I could not get WRF to compile without doing this.

Hope this helps

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: wrf-users-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:wrf-users-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of volz
Sent: Tuesday, 3 February 2009 8:16 AM
To: wrf-users at ucar.edu
Subject: [Wrf-users] RE: Probelm with ungrib.exe on Mac OS X

I am using g95 on Intel Mac OS X.

I found that if I compile WPS a second time after replacing ungrib/src files with pristine sources, I will then be able to compile ungrib.exe.

 FIrst I compile WPS, this makes metgrid.exe and geogrid.exe.  Second I overwrite WPS/ungrib/src with pristine sources.  Then compile a second time and I have all three executables.

See if this makes sense:

kobuk:tmp ruser$ pwd
/Users/ruser/build/wrf_build/tmp
kobuk:tmp ruser$  ls ../
WPS             WPSV3.0.1.TAR   WRFV3           geog.tar        tmp
kobuk:tmp ruser$ cp -r WPS/ungrib/src ../WPS/ungrib/
kobuk:tmp ruser$ cd ../WPS
kobuk:WPS ruser$ ./compile

--
Karl Volz
(907) 786-7235
volz at aeff.uaa.alaska.edu

Thomas Nehrkorn tnehrkor at aer.com
Fri Nov 7 12:30:28 MST 2008
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I think your .F problem stems from the fact that on the Mac, filenames that only differ in case are not unique.  Here is a simple demonstration:

=== On a Unix filesystem:
  funnel[36]% date | tee Today.txt
  Fri Nov  7 14:22:57 EST 2008
  funnel[37]% date | tee today.txt
  Fri Nov  7 14:23:10 EST 2008
  funnel[39]% cat Today.txt
  Fri Nov  7 14:22:57 EST 2008
  funnel[40]% cat today.txt
  Fri Nov  7 14:23:10 EST 2008
=== On a Mac filsystem:
  funnel[41]% cd ~/Documents/junk/
  funnel[42]% date | tee Today.txt
  Fri Nov  7 14:23:58 EST 2008
  funnel[43]% date | tee today.txt
  Fri Nov  7 14:24:01 EST 2008
  funnel[44]% cat Today.txt
  Fri Nov  7 14:24:01 EST 2008
  funnel[45]% cat today.txt
  Fri Nov  7 14:24:01 EST 2008

Thomas

Tanamachi, Robin L. wrote:
> I had a similar problem building WPSV2 on Mac OS X (Leopard) using
> ifort and gcc.
>
> ungrib requires the g2 and w3 libraries in order to handle GRIB2
> files. These libraries are built inside the
directory ${WPS}/ungrib/src/ngl.
> For some reason, if you have to build the g2 and w3 libraries more
> than once, all files ending in .F (e.g.,
addfield.F) are deleted (possibly by the "clean" rules in the Makefiles. I have yet to pinpoint exactly why this is!). Since the *.F files don't exist, they don't get compiled, they don't get put into libg2_4.a and libw3.a, these two libraries are not built, and the compilation of ungrib.exe fails.
>
> My solution was to download and build the g2 and w3 libraries
> separately (i.e. external to WPS); they are
available from http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2/
> Note that I still had the problem with disappearing .F files when
> building these two libraries more than once.
Save the tarballs in case you need to manually replace any of the .F files.
>
> Also, since I was using the Intel Fortran compiler, I had to set
> DEFS=-DLINUX. It looks like you're using g95, so
you may not have to change the default DEFS=-DLINUXG95.
>
> I installed the g2 and w3 libraries in my /usr/local/ directory. I
> then altered ${WPS}/ungrib/src/ngl/Makefile so
that the rules pertaining to these libraries read as follows:
>
> ***** Snip *****
> w3/libw3.a :
> #       ( cd w3 ; $(MAKE) DEV_TOP="${DEV_TOP}" all ; $(RANLIB) libw3.a )
> #       $(LN) w3/libw3.a .
>         $(LN) /usr/local/w3lib/lib/libw3.a .
>
> g2/libg2_4.a :
> #       ( cd g2 ; $(MAKE) DEV_TOP="$(DEV_TOP)" all ; $(RANLIB) libg2_4.a )
> #       $(LN) g2/libg2_4.a .
>         $(LN) /usr/local/g2lib/lib/libg2.a libg2_4.a
> ***** Snip *****
> You may have to alter the paths depending on where you install these
> libraries on your system.
>
> Alternatively, if you won't be using GRIB2, you can simply reconfigure
> your build of WPS to build without.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> Robin Tanamachi, KC0BSC
> Graduate Research Assistant
> OU School of Meteorology
> National Weather Center
> 120 David L. Boren Blvd., Suite 5355
> Norman, OK 73072-7307
> 405-325-1935
>
> "The reward of the young scientist is the emotional thrill of being
> the first person in the history of the world to
see something or to understand something... The reward of the old scientist is the sense of having seen a vague sketch grow into a masterly landscape." -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
> ________________________________________
>
> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:02:23 -0500
> From: "John Krasting" <krasting at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Wrf-users] Probelm with ungrib.exe on Mac OS X
> To: wrf-users at ucar.edu
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>
> gcc -c -g -D_DOUBLEUNDERSCORE -DBYTESWAP -DIO_NETCDF -DBIT32 -DMACOS   mova2i.c
> /bin/rm -f libg2_4.a
> ar ru  libg2_4.a gridtemplates.o pdstemplates.o drstemplates.o
> gribmod.o realloc.o addfield.o addgrid.o
addlocal.o getfield.o gb_info.o gf_getfld.o gf_free.o gf_unpack1.o gf_unpack2.o gf_unpack3.o gf_unpack4.o gf_unpack5.o gf_unpack6.o gf_unpack7.o gettemplates.o getlocal.o getdim.o getpoly.o gribcreate.o gribend.o gribinfo.o mkieee.o rdieee.o simpack.o simunpack.o cmplxpack.o compack.o misspack.o pack_gp.o reduce.o comunpack.o specpack.o specunpack.o jpcpack.o jpcunpack.o enc_jpeg2000.o dec_jpeg2000.o pngpack.o pngunpack.o enc_png.o dec_png.o gbytesc.o skgb.o ixgb2.o getidx.o getg2i.o getg2ir.o getgb2s.o getgb2r.o getgb2l.o getgb2.o getgb2p.o getgb2rp.o putgb2.o g2grids.o gdt2gds.o params.o params_ecmwf.o mova2i.o
> ar: creating archive libg2_4.a
> ranlib libg2_4.a
> ranlib: can't open file: g2/libg2_4.a (No such file or directory)
> make[1]: [g2/libg2_4.a] Error 1 (ignored)
>
> ***** Snip ***** _______________________________________________
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