trouble installing PyNIO/PyNGL with binaries and source build with Intel

Hi,
I'm new to PyNGL and the whole NCAR software collection.
I'm trying to install PyNIO and PyNGL; I tried both, the binaries and to build
from source. Both were unsuccessful.
I have already installed NCL and NCAR Graphics successfully from source, using
the Intel Compiler Suite (after some tweaking).
I'm installing all this on a (k)ubuntu 11.04 64bit system.

1) Binaries distributions: I've installed them to /usr/local:

$ ls /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/
Ngl.pth Nio.pth PyNGL PyNGL-1.4.0-py2.7.egg-info PyNIO PyNIO-1.4.1-
py2.7.egg-info

Apparently the *.pth files have no effect at all. The packages can be imported
by path names (eg. PyNGL), but seem to be empty. Here is an example with
resulting error:

$ epd
Enthought Python Distribution -- www.enthought.com
Version: 7.1-1 (64-bit)

Python 2.7.2 |EPD 7.1-1 (64-bit)| (default, Jul 3 2011, 15:17:51)
[GCC 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-44)] on linux2
Type "packages", "demo" or "enthought" for more information.
>>> import Ngl
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: No module named Ngl
>>> import PyNGL
>>> x = [10., 20.00, 30., 40.0, 50.000, 60.00, 70., 80.00, 90.000]
>>> y = [ 0., 0.71, 1., 0.7, 0.002, -0.71, -1., -0.71, -0.003]
>>> wks_type = "ps"
>>> wks = PyNGL.open_wks(wks_type,"ngl01p") # Open a workstation.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'open_wks'
>>>

I'm using the Enthought Python distribution here, but the same thing happens
with the regular Python distro.
The environment variable PYNGL_NCARG is set to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-
packages/PyNGL/ncarg/.

The binary version of PyNIO has the same problem.

2) Now source builds: I'm using the Intel compilers and the Enthought Python
Distro, again. PyNIO compiles alright, but when I try to import the package, I
get this error:

>>> import nio
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
ImportError: /opt/EPD/epd-7.1-1-rh5-x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-
packages/PyNIO/nio.so: undefined symbol: for_cpystr
>>>

The symbol 'for_cpystr' is actually defined in a Fortran library related to
the Intel compiler suite:

$ nm /opt/intel/composerxe-2011.4.191/compiler/lib/intel64/libifcore.so | grep
'for_cpystr'
00000000000cfc60 T for_cpystr

The library is in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH and adding it to /etc/ld.so.conf.d/
doesn't help either. The source install resides in /opt/EPD/epd-7.1-1-rh5-
x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ and
$ ldd /opt/EPD/epd-7.1-1-rh5-x86_64/lib/python2.7/site-packages/PyNIO/nio.so |
grep 'libifcore.so'
turns up nothing, so it seems these libraries are not correctly linked in.
Which leads me to suspect that the F2CLIBS and F2CLIBS_PREFIX environment
variables are not properly read by the setup.py script.
I have defined them in the following way:

export F2CLIBS='m ifcore irc ifport'
export F2CLIBS_PREFIX=/opt/intel/composerxe-2011.4.191/compiler/lib/intel64/

With this combination (although different syntax) I was able to successfully
build NCL. From my limited understanding of what the setup.py script does,
this should produce a list of the required libraries required by f2py. But
obviously it does not work that way.
In fact none of the above libraries are actually linked in to 'nio.so', except
'libm.so' which points to the standard GNU/Linux version.

The setup.py script for PyNGL crashes in the linking stage with the following
error:

gcc -pthread -shared -g -L/usr/local/lib -O2 -I/usr/local/include
build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/Helper.o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/hlu_wrap.o
build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/gsun.o -L/usr/local/ncarg/lib -
L/opt/intel/composerxe-2011.4.191/compiler/lib/intel64/ -L/opt/EPD/epd-7.1-1-
rh5-x86_64/lib -lnfpfort -lhlu -lncarg -lncarg_gks -lncarg_c -lngmath -lX11 -
lm -lifcore -lirc -lifport -lpython2.7 -o build/lib.linux-
x86_64-2.7/PyNGL/_hlu.so
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/ncarg/lib/libnfpfort.a(dmapgci.o): relocation
R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.4' can not be used when making a shared
object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/ncarg/lib/libnfpfort.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

(I don't know why gcc is used for linking... otherwise the Intel compilers are
used.) NCL is installed in /usr/local/ncarg/ and this package were compiled
with '-fPIC'. I don't know what the meaning of this is.

Sorry for this lengthy post, but I wanted to provide as much information as
possible. I'm really stuck now. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!
        Andre

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Received on Mon Jan 9 21:50:13 2012