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Also, to have an error to actually debug, I set the PGI compiler to 16.10.0 in env_mach_specific.xml.
./case.setup
./case.build
EXEROOT
On Titan, the EXEROOT is important because while the executable may normally live in NFS file space, if the executable is an argument to a debugger, it must then live in Lustre space. The EXEROOT variable in CIME is currently defaulting to: $CIME_OUTPUT_ROOT/$CASE/bld, which is good because it means that one can change the location of the executable by specifying --output-root in the ./create_newcase command, which makes things much simpler.