Problems with Running WRFSI on SUN machine - Repost

[malonso]

I followed the instructions for compiling WRFSI on a Sun workstation given in the post, "Problems installing WRFSI on Sun machine" under the forum, "WRF Standard Initialization" originally posted by pshafer after encountering the same problems. I found that those instructions allowed me to compile, but WRFSI would not run. Specifically, when I tried to run the Perl script:

"./window_domain_rt.pl -w wrfsi -t $INSTALLROOT/templates/hampton -c -s $SOURCE_ROOT"

I got the error:

ld.so.1: a.out: fatal: libucb.so.1: open failed: No such file or
> directory Killed.

I found on a Solaris user forum and confirmed by Wrfhelp that I can issue the command:

setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/ucblib

to get around this problem. But, then I get the error:

"ERROR in getting domain name from
/disk-c/kovacs/WRFV2/wrfsi/domains/hampton/static/
Error returned from find_domain_name
Error returned: get_config

I traced the error back to getfilenames_c.c. Apparently, according to Wrfhelp sun does not have the library dirent.h. So, the following fixed the problem:

Comment out or erase the line, #include <dirent.h>
Add, the line #include "/usr/ucbinclude/sys/dir.h"
Change the line struct dirent **namelist; to struct direct **namelist;
And if you added it, remove the line extern int alphasort ();

[kwthomas]

If you use add "-R/usr/ucblib" after "-L/usr/ucblib", then you don't have to worry about LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This assumes Sun compilers.

Kevin Thomas
Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms
University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma