I am trying to compile ROMS for the first time since the changes were made to the build.bash file, and other compilation steps as well as other changes that were made to the ocean.in file back in, I believe it was January when these changes were made? I didn't see a release forum note on this ...
It turns out that my compile of openmpi got messed up somehow. I don't know how. When I recompiled it, it worked fine now. So everything is good in ROMS world again!
After further testing, I am beginning to think there is an issue with my openMPI compile. I will try recompiling openmp and see if I can get this to work. I tested another application that I know works, and got exactly the same error. Thanks for the initial reply - I will post again ...