Re: 950831: Help with IRIX 5.2

>Keywords: 199508311650.AA02702

Hi,

> I am having difficulty with loading Ver. 2.3.2 on out Indigo 2 machine
> running IRIX 5.2. The problem appears to be with INSTALL (/sbin/install)
> in the Makefile for install. The syntax is incompatible with that required
> by IRIX 5.2. I wonder if you have developed newer scripts for this
> OS. Could you let me know asap.

This is one of our Frequently Asked Questions for netCDF, answers to which
are available at the URL

   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.

This is fixed in the next release, where we just use cp instead of install
to get around all such problems.
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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
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