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Re: netCDF installation failure

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  • Subject: Re: netCDF installation failure
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 12:55:03 -0600
>Date: Thu, 28 Jul 94 11:22:17 EDT 
>From: address@hidden (DAVID BARTHEL STAFF)
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: netCDF installation failure 

In the above message you wrote:

>making `test' in directory /home/barthel/netcdf/netcdf-232pl2/libsrc
>
>     ar rcuv libnetcdf.a array.o attr.o cdf.o dim.o file.o iarray.o error.o 
>globdef.o putget.o putgetg.o sharray.o string.o var.o  xdrposix.o
>     ranlib libnetcdf.a
>xlc -O cdftest.o libnetcdf.a -o cdftest
>     ./cdftest > cdftest_out.new
>ncattget: attribute "TITLE" not found
>Assertion failed: file cdftest.c, line 393
>make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
>
>Make Quitting.
>make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 1.
>
>Make Quitting.
>--------------------------------------------------------
>
>As you can see, cdftest.c (line 393) is trying to pass "TITLE" to through
>ncattget to derive input for assert.  I don't understand why it would make
>it though line 392, where it performs a very similar call.
>This problem likely stems from incorrect input to the configure routine, or
>from a wrong specification of C compiler options.  Do you have any 
>suggestions?  I appreciate your help.... thanks... Dave

This is a puzzle.  I don't see why it fails either.

Please send me the output of the following

    uname -a

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>