[FLASH-USERS] flash and absoft compiler

[Anshu Dubey]

Dean,

There is a site "skeeter.asci.uchicago.edu" whose Makefile.h is known
to work with FLASH and absoft, though at first glance it doesn't look
much different from the prototype. Your problem is most likely to be
the MPI build, I remember that I had to tweak it a lot to get it to
work on the mac with the xlf compiler. Usually your mpi and hdf libraries
should be built with compilers from the same vendor that your fortran
comes from.

Shawn or Paul should be able to give you the exact
options they used to build MPI for the absoft compiler on skeeter.

Anshu

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to help my friend Evan get flash working.  He's got an
> Absoft fortran compiler on a Mac, and starting from the Absoft
> Makefile in the Prototypes directory we got as far as linking.  But it
> seems that this fortran compiler creates symbols in all caps but the C
> functions are in lowercase (like every other compiler wants them).
>
> Does anyone know off-hand the way to make this work?
>
> I tried -YEXT_NAMES=LCS which changes all the fortan symbols to
> lowercase, but then it has problems with the mpi functions.  I guess
> we need to rebuild mpich with a similar flag?  And it makes
> _RUNTIMEPARAMETERS_DATA not lowercase, but I don't know why this is
> special.  I'm just unsure if we are headed down the right path here.
>
> Compiler is Absoft Pro fortran version 8.0.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> -Dean
>