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Re: 950712: Netcdf 2.3.2 Install Problem on Irix 5.3

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  • Subject: Re: 950712: Netcdf 2.3.2 Install Problem on Irix 5.3
  • Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 13:35:51 -0600
> >From: address@hidden (Brady Pamplin)
> >Organization: NMFS
> >Keywords: 199507121850.AA16720 netCDF IRIX 5.3

Hi Brady,

> I have encountered a problem while installing Netcdf 2.3.2 on
> an SGI Challenge server running Irix 5.3
> 
> Problem: The make files get built with 'install' command options
>          which do not match the install program in Irix.
> 
> 'install' on Irix 5.3 does not support the -c parameter and
> requires one of   -f, -F, -dir.
> 
> Configure seems to recognize that it is an Irix system according
> to the following excerpt from the configure.status file.
> 
> I would appreciate any help on this since it is not clear how
> to change the Makefile files.

We tested the netCDF installation on IRIX 4.0 which used a BSD-style
install, but with IRIX 5.x, 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.

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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
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