[CentOS] Recommendation(s)

Sat Oct 1 20:10:10 UTC 2005
William A. Mahaffey III <wam at HiWAAY.net>

Sam Drinkard wrote:

> As far as I know Les, the 2.3.3 does exist, but not under RH, Centos 
> or the "big 3" for that matter.  I recall seeing a few rpm pkgs for 
> some distros I've never heard of.  As for it being exactly what is 
> needed, I can't say anything for sure, other than what the runtime 
> error prints out.  I've looked in the librt.so.1, and it does in fact 
> have an external call to 2.3.3, but beyond that, I dunno.  It could 
> well be a compiler error too.  Many of the folks who have had success 
> building and running WRF are doing so under an earlier version of the 
> PG compiler, I think pre-6.0.  Since I don't own the portland group 
> compiler, just using the trial version, I'm not entitled to any 
> support from them, and as I stated earlier, there has been little to 
> no discussion about late date versions of Linux.  The other thing that 
> is secondary to the WRF build is some fortran utilities and one shared 
> object file that will not build under the x86-64 due to some 
> relocation issues.  I think all the code that I'm attempting to 
> build/run was pretty well tested out on the i386 versions of several 
> OS', but primarily RH3.
>
> On another note, I do have folks that have sent me some configuration 
> files for the MM5 model running under the x86-64 RH distro, and they 
> all say it really kicks ass compared to the 32-bit builds, but that is 
> again, using an earlier version of the Intel compiler and earlier code 
> to boot.  I'm not one to stay on the bleeding edge of things, but I 
> figured there would not be too much change from 3 to 4, but I'm 
> finding out different.  As for the actual 2.3.3 library, I don't know 
> if it will be in the 3.5 distro of Centos or not, but its worth a try.
>
>
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
>>
>> There is an x86_64 version of Centos3.5.  But, I think both
>> will have gcc-3.2.3 which should be the libraries that match
>> compat-glibc on 4.x.  Are you sure you need exactly 2.3.3?
>>
>>  
>>
>

I have used the PGI F77 compiler under both trial & license, & I *think* 
they will provide limited support for the trial version, I would try them.

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