Re: 950428: SGI R8000 support

Hi Mike,

> I just got an SGI power indigo workstation with a 64-bit R8000 CPU.  I'm
> having some trouble with the netCDF libraries.  Everything seems to
> compile, but the tests fail.  If I compile in 32-bit compatibility mode,
> the tests seem to work.  I'd appreciate any ideas on where the problem
> might be.

The 64-bit R8000 didn't exist when we made our last release, so the netCDF
software wasn't ported to that platform.  Since then we've done a
preliminary port and have an alpha-release of it available, while we work on
getting netCDF 2.4 ready for release.  Here's the note on it, from our WWW
document on workarounds for known problems in the current netCDF release at:

   <URL:http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/known_problems.html#irix64>

   IRIX64

   The current release of the netCDF package will not work under IRIX64,
   which is a 64-bit operating system. We have developed a test version of
   the netCDF package that appears to work correctly -- so far. This
   version is not guaranteed to work under any other operating system (and
   might still have problems under IRIX64). If you absolutely must have a
   working netCDF package under IRIX64 and can't wait for the next release
   (which will be version 2.4) then you can try using the IRIX64 test
   version. It's available via the same mechanism as the current netCDF
   distribution -- but its name is irix64-alpha.tar.Z.

   Be advised that we won't support this version under any other operating
   system: if you have a problem with it on a non-IRIX64 platform, we don't
   want to hear about it. We're making this version available solely to
   help those users with an immediate need.

   Notwithstanding the above caveat, we are interested in feedback from
   IRIX64 sites that are attempting to use this test package.

You can get it from

   <URL:ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/irix64-alpha.tar.Z>
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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
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