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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William A. Mahaffey III
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