[MITgcm-devel] Re: [MITgcm-support] Re: MITgcm-test

[Alistair Adcroft]

Ed,

Martin's right. netcdf should not be enabled if it isn't available. It's 
not good enough to say everyone should install it since it isn't always 
possible. Can you modify genmake2 to intelligently configure mnc 
appropriately?

A.

Martin Losch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> new week, new game, new unqualified suggestions (o:
> Would it be possible to check, whether netcdf is avaible at the genmake2 
> or even testreport step and then decide on the type of output in the 
> verification experiments? I guess, that's what my suggestion last Friday 
> was aiming at anyway.
> For example, a "which ncdump" would show the ${whereever}/bin directory, 
> where the netcdf utilities that come with the distribution are; then, if 
> looking for netcdf.inc and libnetcdf.a in ${whereever}/include and 
> ${whereever}/lib fails, one can assume that netcdf is not installed 
> properly, issue a comment/warning and just not use the mnc-package for 
> testing with testreport on this particular machine until the use has 
> created a customized build option file.
> 
> In the end, it's probably a political issue, isn't it? If you want users 
> to completely switch to netcdf in the long run, anything that would let 
> anyone avoid installing and using netcdf, is a bad idea.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On Sep 24, 2004, at 11:06 PM, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
> 
>> Hi Ed,
>>
>> Quoting Ed Hill <eh3 at MIT.EDU>:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 16:24, Patrick Heimbach wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Ed,
>>>>
>>>> that was me (with -addr).
>>>> I was going to show her how she could get
>>>> to compile & run the model on her platform in 10 min,
>>>> and then got surprised by the netcdf stuff.
>>>>
>>>> The issue is that it's quite unfortunate
>>>> that one of our basic (since closest to real application)
>>>> setups is now failing on all platforms that don't
>>>> have netcf installed.
>>>> I would opt to use a less high-profile verif. for this (e.g. exp2).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Patrick,
>>>
>>> Since this is a new user, why not show her how to install NetCDF and
>>> then she'll have output thats easier to understand?  I mean, its *so*
>>> easy to do!
>>>
>>> Or point her towards the MITgcm-support list and we'll gladly walk her
>>> through the install process.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>
>>
>> I already did that, and she already downloaded the rpm's for her RH9.
>> But I still think that this misses the point of using
>> something (currently) non-standard for a "high-profile"
>> verification. Just my opinion...
>>
>> -Patrick
>>
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