Re: PyNGL/PyNIO installation problems

I am not sure what is going on here, but it looks like there are
different problems for PyNIO and PyNGL. Do you know if PyNIO was build
from source or installed as a binary? This PyNIO problem looks like it
related to the HDF4 library. Normally if the HDF4 library is build
according to the instructions on http://www.pyngl.ucar.edu/Download/build_pynio_from_src.shtml
  it will be compiled statically. Your version seems to be linked with
a shared version of the HDF library (called libmfhdf.so.0). It is
possible that you could get this to work by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
the location of libmfhdf.so.0. But we always recommend that libraries
be linked statically as much as possible.

PyNGL does not seem to be able to find the gfortran library. This
might also be fixed by setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Just as a general point, just because the build and install complete
without erros, that does not necessarily indicate a successful
install. Because the nio.so shared object is loaded dynamically, it is
impossible to tell if the build was successful until you can import
the module and use it. You will only have a pretty good idea the
install was successful if you can run the test scripts.
  -dave

On Sep 3, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Schwedler, Benjamin wrote:

> A sysadmin for a cluster that I am working on has been trying to
> install
> PyNGL-1.3.1 and PyNIO-1.4.0. He was able to successfully build the
> packages, but upon importing Nio and Ngl, I receive the following
> errors:
>
> Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Apr 8 2010, 10:22:54)
> [GCC 4.4.0] on linux2
> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> import numpy
>>>> numpy.__version__
> '1.5.0.dev'
>>>> import Nio
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File
> "/apps/coates/Python-2.5.2/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyNIO/Nio.py",
> line 63, in <module>
> from nio import *
> ImportError: libmfhdf.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such
> file
> or directory
>>>> import Ngl
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> File
> "/apps/coates/Python-2.5.2/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyNGL/Ngl.py",
> line 38, in <module>
> import fplib
> ImportError:
> /apps/coates/Python-2.5.2/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyNGL/fplib.so:
> undefined symbol: _gfortran_pow_r8_i4
>
> Builds were attempted with Python-2.5.2 with numpy-1.5.0dev and
> Python-2.6.5 with numpy-2.0.0dev
>
> $ uname -a
> Linux coates-fe02.rcac.purdue.edu 2.6.18-194.3.1.el5rcac1 #1 SMP Sun
> May
> 16 16:03:15 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> Are there any suggestions for how we may able to get around this?
> Since
> I didn't perform the installation myself, I don't know the exact
> versions of all libraries that were used, but I should be able to find
> that out.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ben
>
> --
> Benjamin R. J. Schwedler
>
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