Howdy, yesterday I sent out a request for help in
using the new Intel C and Fortran compilers to
compile NCAR Graphics (ultimately I'm trying to
get MM5 and WRF to work with these compilers since
they're much more accessible to students than
Portland Group).
Rick Grubin gave me a couple of pointers yesterday
and I found some success, and he asked me to post
my solutions. This is going to be kind of long
because I'm going to talk about three things
1) Installation of the Intel Fortran and C++ compilers
2) Installation of the HDF4 libraries (not mandatory for
NCAR graphics, but I figured I might as well include
these).
3) Installation of NCAR Graphics.
Please keep in mind that I haven't fully tested things,
and perhaps I'm even doing something wrong. I'm just
an old fart computer science professor who knows enough
to get into trouble, and sometimes enough to get stuff
done :) Also, there might be some things I did that weren't
absolutely necessary - you know how it is - sometimes we do
so much trial and error that we start to lose track of what
was important and what wasn't.
OK, so my original platform is Linux Redhat 7.3
1) Intel compilers - note that these are available for free from
www.intel.com for non-commercial use (and I believe there may
be some other restrictions, such as personal use only, etc.)
I got Fortran version 8.0.034 and did a standard installation
in /usr/local/intel_fc_80/
The one change I made was in bin/ifort.cfg where I added the
line
-Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /usr/local/intel_fc_80/lib
because there were indications that dynamic libs weren't always
being found at run-time.
I also installed C++ version 8.0.055 and again, installing in
/usr/local/intel_cc_80/
Again, I added a line to bin/icc.cfg
-Xlinker -rpath -Xlinker /usr/local/intel_cc_80/lib
2) Installation of HDF version 4.2
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/HDF
Set some environment variables (I use bash shell for root)
export CC=icc
export FC=ifort (maybe I set F77, so go ahead and set both)
export LDFLAGS="-static"
gmake 2> gmake.out Worked great
gmake check 2> check.out Worked great
gmake install This put everything in /usr/local/HDF
directory
Later on, when I was trying to install NCAR Graphics, I found that
some functions were looking for HDF files in an hdf/ directory,
for example, "hdf/hdf.h" So, to make this all work without
modifying source code, I made a link in my /usr/include
ln -s /usr/local/HDF/include /usr/include/hdf
so essentially /usr/include/hdf points to /usr/local/HDF/include
3) Finally, installation of NCAR Graphics - this was a lot of trial
and error, but here's what worked in the final run
Got version 4.3.1
mkdir /usr/local/ncarg
export NCARG=/var/tmp/ncarg-4.3.1
untar in /var/tmp
cd $NCARG
Save config/LINUX as LINUX.ORIG
Now, modify config/LINUX lines as follows:
#define CCompiler icc
#define FCompiler ifort
#define CtoFLibraries "-L/usr/local/intel_fc_80/lib" -lifcore
#define CcOptions -ansi -w
#define FcOptions -cm -w
./Configure -v
During configuration, accepted most defaults with the following
exceptions
Chose to use "ifort" as the Fortran compiler
Added /usr/local/HDF/lib to lib paths, along with the default
X11R6 path
Added /usr/local/include to include paths, along with the
default X11R6 path (remember, from HDF installation, that
the programs requiring HDF will look in an hdf/ directory,
and with a symbolic link, I have a directory
/usr/local/include/hdf).
So, then I did
make Everything 2> make-output
and this produced the binaries I needed (past experience suggests
that "ictrans" is the binary that's most problematic, so if that
one is created, you "might" be in good shape). I tested this
out by using "idt" to view a gmeta file I'd produced with MM5
and it worked fine. Granted, this is a weak test.
Hopefully, this might help others, and I'm sure others would
like to hear of any changes that folks make to the above
procedures.
Cheers,
Don Morton
--************************************************************** Don Morton http://www.cs.umt.edu/~morton/ Department of Computer Science The University of Montana Missoula, MT 59812 | Voice (406) 243-4975 | Fax (406) 243-5139
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