Describe the Task

Testing the installation of MET on WCOSS2 Acorn using Python 3.10.4 would not work without the addition of a new environment variable.

Running:

module load intel python/3.10.4 
module load intel
module load ve/evs/1.0
/apps/spack/python/3.10.4/intel/19.1.3.304/xqft4d45h4dp4xnbz2ue3nbxv65i6bgp/bin/python3-config --ldflags

on Acorn gave the following output:

-L/apps/spack/python/3.10.4/intel/19.1.3.304/xqft4d45h4dp4xnbz2ue3nbxv65i6bgp/lib64  -lcrypt -lintl -ldl  -lutil -lm -lm

However, when adding this information to MET_PYTHON_LD (along with an additional path and the python library):

export MET_PYTHON_LD=-L/apps/spack/python/3.10.4/intel/19.1.3.304/xqft4d45h4dp4xnbz2ue3nbxv65i6bgp/lib/python3.10/config-3.10-x86_64-linux-gnu/ -L/apps/spack/python/3.10.4/intel/19.1.3.304/xqft4d45h4dp4xnbz2ue3nbxv65i6bgp/lib64 -lpython3.10 -lintl -lcrypt -ldl -lutil -lm -lm

led to the following error:

/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/7/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lintl: No such file or directory

Running ldd /apps/prod/ve/intel/19.1.3.304/python/3.10.4/evs/1.0/bin/python resulted in locating this path:

libintl.so.8 => /apps/spack/gettext/0.21/intel/19.1.3.304/at2kdo4edvuhyzrt5g6zhwrdb7bdui4s/lib64/libintl.so.8 (0x0000150434aef000)

And adding a new environment variable to the configuration file:

export INTL_DIR=/apps/spack/gettext/0.21/intel/19.1.3.304/at2kdo4edvuhyzrt5g6zhwrdb7bdui4s/lib64

and modifying the value of LDFLAGS to include this path in the compile_MET_all.sh script resolved the problem and resulted in a successful compilation.

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<30 min

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MET-11.1.0-beta1

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