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Old 05-11-2006
CERNlib-Solaris8-Installation Problems

Dear Friends,

We are having some difficulties in building the CERN library (2005) on our Sun Solaris 8 machines. Below are the details of the instalation process and our trouble shooting approach. Please advice.
Regards
Gaurab Sarangi

Version Details of the solaris Machine where the installation was unsuccessful:
sun4u, SunOS 5.8, sparc, SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
gmake version: GNU Make version 3.76.1
f77: /opt/comp/SUNWspro/bin/f90 -f77 -ftrap=%none -V
f90: Forte Developer 7 Fortran 95 7.0 2002/03/09
cc: Forte Developer 7 C 5.4 2002/03/09
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Steps taken at different phases in our attempt to compile the cernlib source files on Solaris 8:
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1. All tar-zipped files were downloaded to "/home/asesh/CERN-LIB/"
2. The required installation script was kept in the same directory.
3. Other required executables (gmake, imake, makedepend) along with the shell-scripts (bdsinst, mkdirhier) were added in the path.
4. Then the installation executable was executed (in fact all the commands of the shell script "http://cernlib.web.cern.ch/cernlib/install/start_cern" were fired one by one)
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Case:1
Tried to install the package as it was, it used SunProC using the flag -Xs for strict ANSI C mode and at compile time faced some problem in the header file "in.h", so the installation stopped.
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Case:2
Error in "in.h" was corrected in accodance to ANSI C, and installation was done again. But it came to halt with another error in the compilation of the fortran file, $CVSCOSRC/packlib/zebra/rz/rzcopy.F.
(It was using f77 from SunPro as /opt/comp/SUNWspro/bin/f90 -f77 -ftrap=%none)
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Case:3
Tried using the g77 (GNU fortran compiler) by softlinking f77 to g77.
Also flag related changes were made in "config/sun.cf". From "-xpp=cpp -KPIC" to "-fno-automatic -fno-second-underscore".
It couldn't compile the file $CVSCOSRC/packlib/kernlib/kerngen/tcgen/sungs/ffsize.F.
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Case:4
Another change was made in "config/sun.cf".
#define CernlibSystem -DCERNLIB_SUN -DCERNLIB_SOLARIS -DCERNLIB_UNIX
was changed to
#define CernlibSystem -DCERNLIB_SOLARIS -DCERNLIB_UNIX
The installation stopped with another copiletime error in $CVSCOSRC/pawlib/comis/deccc/csallo.c
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Case:5
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Then tried to install, with C compiler defined as "gcc", by appropriately modifying the file "config/site.def", as mentioned in "sun.cf". The modification was adding " #define HasGcc2 YES " in "config/site.def".
The installer used gcc but used the flag "-Xs" which was not recognized by gcc.
Now in no way could the configuration files be changed so as to remove the flag "-Xs".
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