[Mitgcm-support] Re: Cannot run the executable file

[mitgcm-support at dev.mitgcm.org]

The big/little-endian issue isn't causing your error (you'll get nonsense
numbers rather than an error message). It's probably because the
record length is wrong in the read statements. In the Makefile,
try changing

   -DWORDLENGTH=4

to

   -DWORDLENGTH=1

make clean; make

If it works, then you'll need to make the same change in tools/genmake.

We've haven't configured "genmake" to work with the Compaq compiler
because we don't have it. If it works, let us know and we'll incorporate
the changes.

A.

 > Thanks for your message. I check all of the topog.* files.
 > The topog.bump file exists and is also readable in the same directory.
 > All of the experiments have the same problems. I guess this is due to the
 > Linux machine (The ieee issue when reading the binary file). I follow
 > the same procedure using another SunOS machine and can run the
 > code succefully. However, I don't know how to fix this problem in Linux.
 > It seems the -D_BYTESWAPIO is used to remove the binary reading problem.
 > I don't know if there is anyone running the code in Linux successfully.
 > Thanks a lot for your help!