Build cleanup

[mwaxmonsky]

Description

Type of Change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Documentation update
• Code maintenance (refactoring, optimization, etc.)
• CI/CD changes

Related Issues

Fixes #

Changes Made

• Makes templates consistently set integer and real flags.
• Updates build infrastructure to accept int flags as well as real flags.

Testing

Test Environment

• Tested on derecho
• Tested locally
• Other: _______________

Compiler(s) Tested

• Intel
• GNU
• NVHPC
• Other: _______________

Test Cases

• All existing tests pass
• New tests added and pass
• Manual testing performed
• Examples run successfully

Test Results

Performance Impact

• No performance impact expected
• Performance improvement
• Potential performance impact (explain below)

Documentation

• Code comments updated
• README updated
• User documentation updated
• Developer documentation updated
• No documentation changes needed

Checklist

• My code follows the project's coding standards
• I have performed a self-review of my own code
• I have commented my code, particularly in hard-to-understand areas
• I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
• My changes generate no new warnings or errors
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works
• New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
• Any dependent changes have been merged and published

Additional Notes

[mwaxmonsky]

Just did a quick test and llvm-flang does work (to some degree) where we can probably get the workflow to pass but it requires merging #51 as it needs the updated containers (looks like the path issues with netCDF were resolved in that particular container in the newer images).