Grads on Slackware 11 - segmentation faults due to a severe case of versionitis

Thu Oct 19 18:53:57 EDT 2006

Jean Pierre --
Current public builds of GrADS use DODS version 3.2 and were built
with gcc version 2.9. These versions of the libraries and the
complier are now in retirement, and in many operating systems are
dead and gone. If you can find or install the old version of gcc on
your box, then you can probably build 1.9b4 from source with the
linux supplib tar file we provide.

If you do not have gcc version 2.9, then you must build a more recent
version of DODS (OPenDAP) and then you have to fiddle with the
configure script and/or the Makefile in order to get a build of
gradsdods. I have used DODS 3.4 successfully on linux, but it does
require a bit of mucky-muck. If you can build DODS 3.2, then I would
use Patrice's -enable-dynamic-supplibs mods and I bet it would find
the new version of dods and create a usable makefile.

Jennifer

On Oct 18, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Jean Pierre Arabonis wrote:

> Thanks Patrice for the suggestions, I tried your tarball without
> success, same errors came up as before.
>
> I have brought across the following:
>
> grads-1.9b3-src.tar.gz
> grads-1.9b3-supplibs-linuxRH9.tar.gz
>
> put them in a directory and tried:
>
> >./configure --with-dods --libdir=/data/source/Grads19b3work/
> grads-1.9b3/supplibs/lib
>
> and I have success with everything in order, then all falls over
> when I try make:
>
> >make
>
> arabonis at baltic:/data/source/Grads19b3work/grads-1.9b3> make
> Making all in src
> make[1]: Entering directory `/data/source/Grads19b3work/grads-1.9b3/
> src'
> make  all-am
> make[2]: Entering directory `/data/source/Grads19b3work/grads-1.9b3/
> src'
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I. -I.././supplibs/include -I/usr/
> X11R6/include    -g -O -c `test -f 'gxdxwd.c' || echo './'`gxdxwd.c
> gxdxwd.c:25: error: conflicting types for 'calloc'
> gxdxwd.c:25: error: conflicting types for 'calloc'
> make[2]: *** [gxdxwd.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/data/source/Grads19b3work/grads-1.9b3/
> src'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/source/Grads19b3work/grads-1.9b3/
> src'
> make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>
> This is now well over my head, anyone out there can tell me what is
> going on and if/how to solve it.
>
> On the side track I tried the fedora core 1.8 compilation again
> through gdb, maybe someone can tell me what is going on as it seems
> to be the common problem with all the versions of grads:
>
> arabonis at baltic:/data/source/Gradsfedoracore> gdb --quiet gradsdods
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
> (gdb) run
> Starting program: /data/source/Gradsfedoracore/gradsdods
> warning: Cannot initialize thread debugging library: unknown
> thread_db error '22'
>
> Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 1.8SL11
> Copyright (c) 1988-2001 by Brian Doty
> Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies
> Institute for Global Environment and Society
> All Rights Reserved
>
> Config: v1.8SL11 32-bit little-endian readline sdf/xdf netcdf DODS-
> enabled lats printim
>
> Issue 'q config' command for more information.
>
> Landscape mode? (no for portrait):  p
> GX Package Initialization: Size = 11 8.5
> ga-> sdfopen http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/gfs/gfs.2006101800i
> Scanning self-describing file:  http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/
> gfs/gfs.2006101800i
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x083a16e5 in get_cie_encoding ()
> (gdb)
>
>
> Many Thanks
>     Jean Pierre
>
>
>
>
>
> Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:23:37PM +0200, Jean Pierre Arabonis wrote:
>>
>>>    My question is is it likely that I will have success in compiling
>>> grads if I trawl the net and find these libraries and install
>>> them, or
>>> can someone point me in the right direction to solve this problem.
>>>
>> Since all the grads prerequisites are packaged for fedora, I can't
>> see
>> why it shouldn't be possible to install them on slackware, either
>> using
>> the packaging system or by recompiling (even though I don't know
>> anything
>> about slackware). In case you want to build against 'system'
>> libraries
>> (libraries not in the supplib directory) you may be interested in the
>> grads tarball I distribute here (with only changes in configure with
>> --dyn-supplib given):
>> http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/dumas/fc-srpms/
>> grads-1.9b4.1.tar.gz
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pat
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Jean Pierre Arabonis
> arabonis at egs.uct.ac.za
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Jennifer M. Adams
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