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+After installing PGI, the localrc file of the pgi installation needs to be modified by issuing the following commands in the directory where the localrc file is located:
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+    module add gcc/<appropriate version>  # currently 7.3.0
+    ./makelocalrc -x -gcc $(which gcc) -gpp $(which g++) -g77 $(which gfortran)
+