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> Organization: . > Keywords: 199402182145.AA11855 Hi Bjorn, Sorry it's taken so long to answer this. I just noticed it had never been answered ... > I am trying to install NetCDF on a Mac IIfx under A/UX 3.0.1 (Apple Unix). > However, the test of XDR fails with the following message: > > cmp test.xdr test_xdr.sav > test.xdr test_xdr.sav differ: char 3478, line 1 > *** XDR fails binary test *** > > The RPC-part of A/UX is licensed from Sun to Apple, which makes it > surprising that it does not work. Perhaps Apple paid too little... > > Do you know if someone has installed NetCdf on A/UX? No, sorry, we're not aware of a netCDF port to A/UX. We don't have an A/UX system here where we can duplicate the problem. If the difference were just a small floating point difference, it might be OK anyway. > How do I force the installation programs to use the XDR-routines supplied > with NetCDF? If you're using the "configure" system in netcdf 2.3.2, you will have to modify the netcdf/xdr/Makefile created by configure to redefine the LIBOBJS macro to include all of the .o object files corresponding to .c files in the netcdf/xdr/ directory. I'm forwarding this to Steve Emmerson to look at why the configure script generated Makefiles to use the vendor-supplied XDR library when the xdrtest failed. That sounds like a problem with the configure script. He may hacve more questions for you, or may ask you to email the output of running some tests under A/UX, since we can't do that here. __________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 (303)497-8645 Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000