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Re: 941215: netCDF build failure on IRIX 6.0

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  • Subject: Re: 941215: netCDF build failure on IRIX 6.0
  • Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 15:00:16 -0700
>Organization: CU
>Keywords: 199412152251.AA26358 netCDF IRIX 6.0

Hi Yuanzheng,

> We installed netcdf on our sun system. When I try install it on our
> SGI system(IRIX 6.0), it does not work. There is no error message at 
> 'make all', but at 'makr test', I obtain fellowing message:
> 
> - -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> making `test' in directory /usr/local/netcdf-2.3.2/xdr
>  
>         ./xdrtest > xdrtest_out.new
> Assertion failed: xdr_setpos(xdrs, seeks[jj]), file xdrtest.c, line 169
> *** Error code 134 (bu21)
>  
> make: fatal error.
> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
>  
> make: fatal error.
> 
> - -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> What is the problem? Does netcdf run on IRIX 6.0?

We only have IRIX 5.2 here, and it builds and tests fine on that platform,
with `configure', `make', `make test', and `make install'.  Since we don't
have access to IRIX 6.0, we can't duplicate your problem, but one thing to
check is that configure does the right thing on your system. In particular,
it needs to find the system XDR library and use it (-lsun on IRIX 5.2)
rather than building in the netcdf/xdr subdirectory.  If SGI has changed the
location of the XDR library to someplace not found by our `configure'
command, that would explain the errors you are seeing.

Please let us know if you find that this is the case.

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