compile GrADS on solaris x86

[Arlindo da Silva]

Julie,

Which version of gcc are you using? Try to compile without any optimization
and see if that makes any difference. I have had problems on Linux/Ubuntu
with gcc 4.2.

         Arlindo

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Julie Chen <chenj at ssc.ucla.edu> wrote:

> I'm trying to compile GrADS for our users on Solaris x86 system.  But I
> got couple of problem, hope someone here would help out.
>
> First I tried to build GrADS-2.0.a3.  After install some of the lib it
> needed, such as gd, jasper, jpeg etc. The GrADS compiled and installed
> without any problem.  But people reported "segment fault error" during
> the script.  I'm not a GrADS user, so here is the information user sent
> me:
>
>    I just got a "segment fault error", and Grads is killed.  If I
> reduced the area of interpolation, the command to enter a endless loop
> then I had to control-C the script.  Maybe it is a memory problem.
>     I managed to make my script work by changing some settings.
> However, we have many many other scripts that won't work.
>
> Anyone know what might be wrong?  Here is the grads build information:
>
>
> +=======================================================================
> ==+
>   GrADS 2.0.a3 : Built Wed Sep 17 14:33:54 PDT 2008 for
> i386-pc-solaris2.10
>
> +=======================================================================
> ==+
>
>  +----------------------------------+
>  |                                  |
>  | Configuration Summary            |
>  |                                  |
>  |  + readline enabled              |
>  |  + printim enabled               |
>  |  + netcdf enabled                |
>  |  - hdf4 disabled                 |
>  |  - grib2 disabled                |
>  |  - GUI disabled                  |
>  |                                  |
>  | Build Summary                    |
>  |                                  |
>  |  + grads enabled                 |
>  |  - gradsdap (OPeNDAP) disabled   |
>  |                                  |
>  |  + Dynamic linking enabled       |
>  |                                  |
>  +----------------------------------+
> configure: creating src/VERSION
> configure: creating src/buildinfo.h
> configure: creating ./config.status
> config.status: creating Makefile
> config.status: creating src/Makefile
> config.status: creating src/config.h
> config.status: src/config.h is unchanged
>
> Run 'make && make install' to build GrADS.
> Executables will be installed to bin/ in current dir, unless prefix was
> specified.
>
>
> Then user asked me to try build an earlier version of GrADS,
> grads-1.9b4.  I got following error during make:
>
> gcc  -g -O   -o gradsc  grads.o gxsubs.o gxmeta.o gxchpl.o gxcntr.o
> gxstrm.o gxwmap.o gxshad.o gaexpr.o gafunc.o gautil.o gagx.o gscrpt.o
> gamach.o bufrstn.o gabufr.o gabufrtbl.o gxX.o gxdxwd.o gd13gif.o
> latsnc.o galats.o lats.o latsint.o latsgrib.o latstime.o latsstat.o
> fgbds.o fgutil.o latsgribmap.o gagmap.o   gaddes-c.o gacfg-c.o gaio-c.o
> gauser-c.o -L.././supplibs/lib -L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib
> .././supplibs/lib/libgd.a .././supplibs/lib/libpng.a
> .././supplibs/lib/libz.a   .././supplibs/lib/libreadline.a -lX11
> -ltermcap -lm
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> gdCompareInt                        gxmeta.o
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to gradsc
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [gradsc] Error 1
>
> Hope someone here have experience with GrADS on solaris x86.  Or is
> there compiled version I can download somewhere?
>
> Thank you very much for your time.
>
> Best,
> Julie Chen
> UCLA Social Sciences Computing
>



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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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