[MITgcm-support] Installation of gfortran and netcdf

[Martin Losch]

Nick,

the fact that all of your test fail usually means that something very simple (but fundamental) goes wrong (like the cpp command fails and no *.f can be generated or similar). I suggest to have a look at genmake.log; there you’ll find the actual error messages of the c-preprocessor cpp and the compilers.

Did you try to compile and run simple “hello world” programs with your gfortran?

Martin


On Jan 14, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Nick <nrogan at geomar.de> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I feel rather daft resorting to the mailing list for what should be such a simple task. However, I've spent the last four days trying to sort it out and I just can't keep going.
> 
> I have lots of experience running the MIT on my iMac and macbook pro, the latter of which I set up within an hour myself by installing gfortran, hdf and netcdf before compiling the MITgcm successfully.
> 
> My experience of installation was a couple of years ago and due to a short term post, a crippled iMac and a change of institution I need to install the MIT on my personal MACbook to run some simple simulations. 
> 
> So, I am running Mac OS X 10.6 and just can not get gfortran and netcdf installed, or if they are installed genmake2 does not acknowledge their existence. I have tried compiling binaries from sourceforge, gcc  and others. I have tried apple installers, everything and none of them seem to give the required result. 
> 
> Can someone take a couple of minutes out of their day and give me some advice?
> 
> This is no doubt something simple like the location of the libraries or pointing a particular package to the executable, but I just can't get my head around it. 
> 
> I think I've installed gfortran, though I couldnt find anywhere how I should test it's installation. Version information and manual information come onto the terminal when I request them. 
> 
> I pointed the mitgcm optfile at the gfortran executable at /usr/local/bin/gfortran. But genmake2 does not acknowledge that fortran exists: 
> 
> ===  Checking system libraries  ===
> Do we have the system() command using /usr/local/bin/gfortran...  no
> Do we have the fdate() command using /usr/local/bin/gfortran...  no
> Do we have the etime() command using /usr/local/bin/gfortran...  no
> Can we call simple C routines (here, "cloc()") using /usr/local/bin/gfortran...  no
> Can we unlimit the stack size using /usr/local/bin/gfortran...  no
> Can we register a signal handler using /usr/local/bin/gfortran...  no
> Can we use stat() through C calls...  no
> Can we create NetCDF-enabled binaries...  no
> 
> Any advice?
> 
> Hopefully someone can solve this problem for me in seconds.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Nick Rogan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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