Re: NetCDF library problems

Jason,

One other thing, I've better successs with the builds by setting
environment variable CC to gcc, ie

% setenv CC gcc

Don't no why but it helps.  I'm wondering what is the default compiler on
your system?

Robb...


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Jason Thaxter wrote:

> To be honest it's been long months since I last looked at this really
> carefully. What I'm looking at right now is "make test" fails on loading the
> NetCDF library: unresolved symbol "ncopts". There used to be something on list
> archives detailing how to fix this, I thought, but it seems the website has
> been reorganized and I can't find it.
>
> I'm trying a clean build on my laptop (to avoid breaking things on our
> servers) using the most recent sources and see what I get.... So far I got
> further than the above. If we're lucky this will be one of those problems that
> magically disappears.
>
> Then we can get to my real problem, which is arrays of bytes returning only
> the first value. I'll get a good sample of this, with code. With a little luck
> I'll get to this tomorrow.
>
> For future reference:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> I am working with FreeBSD systems :
>
>  uname -a:
> FreeBSD whitehead.gomoos.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p1 #0: 
> Thu Mar 18 14:43:37 EST 2004     
> address@hidden:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHITEHEAD  i386
>
> FreeBSD bildad.gomoos.org 4.8-RELEASE-p16 FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p16 #0: Tue Mar 
>  9 10:53:46 EST 2004     address@hidden:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BILDAD  i386
>
>  gcc -v:
>
> Using built-in specs.
> Configured with: FreeBSD/i386 system compiler
> Thread model: posix
> gcc version 3.3.3 [FreeBSD] 20031106
>
> Using builtin specs.
> gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD]
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 03:13:26PM -0600, Russ Rew wrote:
> > Jason,
> >
> > Robb Kambic reports he built netcdf-perl-1.2.3 on a Linux system for
> > which "uname -a" returns:
> >
> >   $ uname -a
> >   Linux sunshine.unidata.ucar.edu 2.4.20-30.8.legacysmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 20 
> > 17:13:00 PST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> >
> > and is not seeing the problem you report, or that was reported in
> >
> >   
> > http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/support/help/MailArchives/netcdf-perl/msg00120.html
> >
> > He's using gcc 3.2:
> >
> >   $ gcc --version
> >   gcc (GCC) 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)
> >
> > Then using perl 5.8.0 (not even upgrading to perl 5.8.4), the test
> > worked fine:
> >
> >   ...
> >   ...
> >   Checking variable sizes........................ok
> >   Reading values of record variables.............ok
> >   Closing netCDF file............................ok
> >   make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rkambic/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src/perl'
> >
> >   returning to directory /home/rkambic/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src
> >
> >   make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rkambic/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src'
> >   $ perl -v
> >
> >   This is perl, v5.8.0 built for i386-linux-thread-multi
> >   (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
> >
> > Steve Emmerson's out today, so I'm depending on Robb to track this
> > down.  If we could isolate what the difference is between your
> > environment and his, maybe we could make some progress, but we need to
> > be able to duplicate the problem here to have a chance at fixing it.
> >
> > Is this the symptom you're seeing?
> >
> > > The same failure, test_dynamic fails with a segfault ...
> >
> > --Russ
>
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Robb Kambic                                Unidata Program Center
Software Engineer III                      Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research
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