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Error when compiling convert_mpas with make

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Hello

I've searched for this problem to see if it was reported before and haven't find something that looked similar, but sorry if it was already been answered somewhere else.

I am trying to compile convert_mpas with the default option but I get the following error:

View attachment err.txt

I have NetCDF-4.7 installed and, if I'm not mistaken, this is the recommended version for using the MPAS model, so it shouldn't be the problem. I am using mpifort. Does someone knows what could be possibly wrong?
 
The compilation errors seem to be related to the Parallel-NetCDF library, e.g.,
Code:
mpifort -o convert_mpas scan_input.o mpas_mesh.o target_mesh.o remapper.o file_output.o copy_atts.o field_list.o timer.o convert_mpas.o -L/p1-nemo/danilocs/mpas/mpas-libs-gnu8.3.0/lib -lnetcdff -L/p1-nemo/danilocs/mpas/mpas-libs-gnu8.3.0/lib -lnetcdf -lhdf5_hl -lhdf5 -lcurl -lm -lnetcdf -lhdf5_hl -lhdf5 -lz -ldl
/p1-nemo/danilocs/mpas/mpas-libs-gnu8.3.0/lib/libnetcdf.a(libdispatch_la-derror.o): In function `nc_strerror':
/p1-nemo/danilocs/mpas/netcdf-c-4.7.0/libdispatch/derror.c:276: undefined reference to `ncmpi_strerror'
/p1-nemo/danilocs/mpas/netcdf-c-4.7.0/libdispatch/derror.c:277: undefined reference to `ncmpi_strerror'
(Note that the Parallel-NetCDF routines generally begin with "ncmpi_".)

Although the convert_mpas Makefile tries to obtain the correctly library linking flags with
Code:
FCLIBS = $(shell nc-config --flibs)
we have found that some versions of the NetCDF library provide an "nc-config" program that don't always return the correct flags (especially regarding the Parallel-NetCDF library).

Can you try adding "-lpnetcdf" to the end of the FCLIBS definition in the top-level Makefile, so that FCLIBS is defined as
Code:
FCLIBS = $(shell nc-config --flibs) -lpnetcdf
?
 
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