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>Keywords: 199503152313.AA13927 Hi, > We have successfully installed GMT on a Sun and PCs, but > having a problem trying to install it on this SGI. > .../lib/libnetcdf.a is being installed as a directory, not > a file and this causes the 'make all' in the .../src for > compiling GMT to blow up with a bad file magic number. > Had to edit configure to be '/sbin/install -dir' instead of > '/sbin/install -c' because the -c option is not supported on > SGI's. Any suggestions?? Sure appreciate any help you can give. Here's an answer from our netCDF Frequently Answered Questions list at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/faq.html 14. How can I build netCDF for SGI under IRIX 5.x? We tested the netCDF installation on IRIX 4.0 which used a BSD-style install, but with IRIX 5.2, the flags on the install utility changed. To get around this, you need to define the INSTALL configuration variable before building netCDF from the source distribution. How to do this is explained in the installation documents. INSTALL should be defined as /usr/bin/X11/bsdinst which, according to the IRIX 5.2 man pages is an install that uses BSD-style arguments. Then rerun the configure script and redo the make all. In our next release, we use "cp" instead of "install", which gets around such problems. ______________________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden P.O. Box 3000 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ Boulder, CO 80307-3000 ______________________________________________________________________________