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Charlie, > >To: address@hidden (netCDF Support) > >From: address@hidden (Charlie Zender) > >Organization: CGD/NCAR/UCAR > >Keywords: 199506082253.AA21549 In the above message you wrote: > i'm trying to get netcdf-perl-1.0 up and running but it's > failing on the test suite. i installed a private copy of > perl5.001 + the four patches locally and modified the > CUSTOMIZE file accordingly. i could have done something > wrong with the patch installation for perl, because i've never > used patch before, but everything went smoothly and perl > passed it's test suite. i'm sure i used the same C compiler, gcc. > please let me know what you think my error might have been. > here's the os version, the output from ./configure, > the output from make, and the error message from the test suite: ... > making `test' in directory /cgd/data2/zender/netcdf-perl-1.0/src/perl > > /data/zender/bin/SUNMP/perl -I/cgd/data2/zender/netcdf-perl-1.0/src/perl/blib > -I/cgd/data2/zender/netcdf-perl-1.0/src/perl/blib > -I/data/zender/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris -I/data/zender/lib/perl5 test.pl > Creating netCDF file...........................ok > Setting fill mode..............................ok > Defining fixed dimensions......................ok > Defining fixed variables.......................ok > Writing attributes.............................ok > Defining record dimension......................ok > Defining record variables......................ok > Ending definition..............................ok > Writing fixed variable values..................ok > Synchronizing netCDF I/O.......................ok > Writing record values..........................perl/netCDF record variable > size mismatch at test.pl line 183. > *** Error code 255 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test' > Current working directory /cgd/data2/zender/netcdf-perl-1.0/src/perl ... I've discovered the problem. Please see the netCDFPerl Web page http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf-perl under "KNOWN PROBLEMS". -------- Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>