Re: ctrans: FATAL

Samrat,

I think the best thing to do at this point is to try to work with the
precompiled binary. Building from source code can be difficult.
I'm pretty sure ctrans and the graphcaps will work fine if you use
the precompiled binary.

We need to work on getting your own code to compile, however.

I suggest we take this offline so we don't swamp ncarg-talk with the
back-and-forth details.

With regard to the precompiled binary, you said:

> Then i installed NCL binary, got
> compiler errors related to g77, and as you said, changed g77 to gfortran &
> tried to use the options -lgcc and -lg2c, which did not work either, though
> the libs are in path ie in /usr/lib (so no idea why the options are not
> recognised).

Can you email me (and not ncarg-talk) the exact compile line, and the
exact error message that you got, and I'll take it from there.

Also, it would help to know:

   1. Which precompiled binary you installed from.

   2. What version of gcc/gfortran you have:

        gcc --version
        gfortran --version

   3. What "uname -a" reports on your system.

Thanks,

--Mary

On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Samrat Rao wrote:

> Hi Mary,
> Here is the output of the commands you asked me to type:
>
> $: which ctrans
> /usr/local/ncarg_5.0.0/bin/ctrans
> $: printenv NCARG_ROOT
> /usr/local/ncarg_5.0.0
> $ ls -l $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/graphcaps
> total 632
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 adm5
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 2008-10-29 00:54 aed.a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 56 2008-10-29 00:54 aed.b
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 balsml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 ditroff
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hp150
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hp2648a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hp7475a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hp7510a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hpgl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hpgl2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hpgl2.dual
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hpgl2pe
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 hpgl2pe.dual
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 imagen
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 imagen.port
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 pc.mono
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 ps.color
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 ps.land.color
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 ps.land.mono
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 ps.mono
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 qms800
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 r6211
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 s100
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 t4010
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 t4025
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 t4105
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 t4107
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 t4107.seg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 t4115
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 t4115.seg
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 tal1590
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 tekalike
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 versaterm
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 vt100
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 vt125
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 vt220
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 vt240
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 vt330
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 vt340
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14400 2008-10-29 00:54 vt340w
>
> I guess the read permissions are correct. Though i installed as root, i
> do not login as root.
>
> Initially i downloaded the NCL-5.0.0 source code, compiled and installed
> the necessary software, and then tried to compile NCL using combinations of
> GNU's and Intel's compilers. Since each time i got 3-4 errors while
> compiling the NCL source code, the build was not complete (i shall post the
> difficulties in the appropriate forum). Then i installed NCL binary, got
> compiler errors related to g77, and as you said, changed g77 to gfortran &
> tried to use the options -lgcc and -lg2c, which did not work either, though
> the libs are in path ie in /usr/lib (so no idea why the options are not
> recognised). So finally i compiled NCL for NCAR Graphics, got no compile
> time errors (i think), typed a few commands, got errors and posted the same
> in this forum. Thats all i have to say.
>
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Mary Haley <haley_at_ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> Samrat,
>>
>> It looks like either your graphcaps didn't get built properly, your
>> NCARG_ROOT is not set correctly, or else your graphcaps don't have the
>> proper read permissions. I'm guessing your graphcaps didn't get built
>> properly.
>>
>> Can you type the following and send me the output:
>>
>> which ctrans
>> printenv NCARG_ROOT
>> ls -l $NCARG_ROOT/lib/ncarg/graphcaps
>>
>> Is there a reason you are building from source code rather than
>> using a precompiled binary? Even though the binary was built with
>> GNU-compilers, you can usually link to the libraries using other
>> compilers.
>>
>> --Mary
>>
>> On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Samrat Rao wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>>
>> I downloaded the NCL 5.0.0 source code and compiled it (using Intel's
>> compilers) for NCAR Graphics. There was no error while compiling. But when
>> i
>> issued the commands:
>>
>> $: ncargex cpex08
>> Some compiling is done, a metafile cpex08.ncgm is created, and then when i
>> type
>> $ ctrans -d X11 cpex08.ncgm
>> I get the errors:
>> ctrans: FATAL -
>> open(/usr/local/ncarg_5.0.0/lib/ncarg/graphcaps/^Yï,O_RDONLY)
>> ctrans: FATAL - Can't initialize
>> device(/usr/local/ncarg_5.0.0/lib/ncarg/graphcaps/^Yï) [
>> open(/usr/local/ncarg_5.0.0/lib/ncarg/graphcaps/^Yï,O_RDONLY) ]
>>
>>
>> Similar errors occur for other examples also. Typing echo $DISPLAY on the
>> command prompt give the following output
>> :0.0 .This seems to be right. So how do i solve the problem?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --
>>
>> Samrat Rao
>> Department of Mechanical Engineering
>> Indian Institute of Science
>> Bangalore - 560012, India
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Samrat Rao
> Department of Mechanical Engineering
> Indian Institute of Science
> Bangalore - 560012, India
>

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