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> Organization: NCAR/SCD > Keywords: 199404201736.AA14609 Hi Dick, > I have built the netCDF 2.3.2 product on an IBM RS/6000 980 > under AIX 3.2.5. > > "make all" reports no anomaly. "make test" bombs with an > assertion failure. I am appending the test ouput for your > evaluation. Let me know if you need other supportive > information. We have observed a problem with the optimizer in the C compiler of AIX 3.2. The default for our configure script is to specify optimization by using the "-O" compiler flag, but that causes the netCDF library to be built incorrectly under AIX 3.2, with the symptom that "make test" will fail even though there are no compile or link errors when building from source. A workaround is to build the netCDF library with CFLAGS="" (or "-g") explicitly, by setting the environment variable CFLAGS to "" or "-g" before invoking configure, or by using one of the other methods suggested in the INSTALL file to prevent the use of the "-O" flag for compilation. The specific file that is incorrectly compiled with "-O" is libsrc/string.c, so another workaround is to just compile that file without "-O" and then rebuild. This problem will be fixed in the next release. This question has come up before, so I put it in the netCDF FAQ as question number 12: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html#aix Please let me know if recompiling libsrc/string.c without the "-O" flag doesn't fix the problem. __________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 (303)497-8645 Boulder, Colorado 80307-3000