[MITgcm-support] problems on alpha amchine

[Hezi Gildor]

solved! (using another cpp that is installed on the machine)

thanks, hezi.


Ed Hill wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 20:55 +0200, Hezi Gildor wrote:
>  
>
>>Dear Jean-Michel,
>>
>>I attach diagnostics_main_init.f
>>
>>it looks ok to me but still the compiler is not happy:
>>
>>f77 -fpe2 -convert big_endian -r8 -extend_source -automatic -call_shared 
>>-notransform_loops -align dcommons -O5 -fast -tune host -inline all -c 
>>diagnostics_main_init.f
>>f90: Error: diagnostics_main_init.f, line 1686: Syntax error, found 
>>END-OF-STATEMENT when expecting one of: ( * :: , : ) + . - % . ** / // 
>>.LT. < .LE. <= .EQ. == .NE. ...
>>      diagUnits = DIAGS_MK_UNITS( rUnit2c
>>-----------------------------------------^
>>f90: Error: diagnostics_main_init.f, line 1693: Syntax error, found 
>>END-OF-STATEMENT when expecting one of: ( * :: , : ) + . - % . ** / // 
>>.LT. < .LE. <= .EQ. == .NE. ...
>>      diagUnits = DIAGS_MK_UNITS( rUnit2c
>>-----------------------------------------^
>>f90: Error: diagnostics_main_init.f, line 1756: Syntax error, found 
>>END-OF-STATEMENT when expecting one of: ( * :: , : ) + . - % . ** / // 
>>.LT. < .LE. <= .EQ. == .NE. ...
>>      diagUnits = DIAGS_MK_UNITS( rUnit2c
>>-----------------------------------------^
>>    
>>
>
>
>Hi Hezi,
>
>OK, this helps!  Its now obvious that you have a problem with your C
>pre-processor ("CPP").  I ran a:
>
>  $ diff -u diagnostics_main_init.f ~/diagnostics_main_init.f
>
>to compare your file with ones that I've generated and there were many
>differences similar to this one:
>
>       diagTitle = 'Vertical Transp of Salt '
>-      diagUnits = DIAGS_MK_UNITS(sUnit4c//'.'//rUnit2c//'/s', myThid )
>+      diagUnits = DIAGS_MK_UNITS(sUnit4c
>       diagCode  = 'WM      LR      '
>
>which demonstrates that your CPP is not handling the "//" syntax the way
>you want it to be handled (eg. left alone!).
>
>So, can you get a systems administrator to help you install a different
>CPP on that system?  Or, can you find out whether your CPP has a
>"-traditional" or similar option that will help it act as you desire
>with the syntax?
>
>Ed
>
>ps - The GNU CPP will do what you want so perhaps you can get it
>     installed or get someone to help you install it?
>
>  
>