960111: netCDF installation

Cara,

>Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 15:06:27 +0800 
>From: address@hidden (Cara Wilson)
>Organization: Oregon State University
>Subject: Re: 960111: netCDF installation 
>Keywords: 199601102202.AA13288

In the above message you wrote:

> I changed my path so that it used the c compiler in /usr/lang/bin and no 
> longer got the compilation errors, but instead got compilation warnings 
> with some of the files that say 'semantics of ">" change in ANSI C; use 
> explicit cast' (output from make all enclosed).

You may safely ignore those warnings.

> Running make test I again got errors with all the files in nctest. 

I don't see that in the `make test' output you sent me:

> making `all' in directory /home/zelda/bernard/gmt/netcdf-232pl2/nctest
> 
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O varget.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O vargetg.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O varput.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O varputg.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O vardef.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O vartests.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O vputget.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O vputgetg.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O driver.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O cdftests.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O dimtests.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O rec.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O atttests.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O misctest.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O add.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O error.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O val.c
> cc -c -I../libsrc -DNDEBUG -O slabs.c
> cc -O varget.o vargetg.o varput.o varputg.o vardef.o vartests.o vputget.o 
> vputgetg.o driver.o cdftests.o dimtests.o rec.o atttests.o misctest.o add.o 
> error.o emalloc.o val.o slabs.o ../libsrc/libnetcdf.a -o nctest

The above looks OK.

> making `test' in directory /home/zelda/bernard/gmt/netcdf-232pl2/nctest
> 
> ./nctest
> *** Testing nccreate ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncopen ...                ok ***
> *** Testing ncredef ...               ok ***
> *** Testing ncendef ...               ok ***
> *** Testing ncclose ...               ok ***
> *** Testing ncinquire ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncsync ...                ok ***
> *** Testing ncabort ...               ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimdef ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimid ...               ok ***
> *** Testing ncdiminq ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncdimrename ...   ok ***
> *** Testing ncvardef ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarid ...               ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarinq ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarput1 ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarget1 ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarput ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarget ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarputg ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncvargetg ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncrecinq ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncrecput ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncrecget ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncvarrename ...   ok ***
> *** Testing ncattput ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncattinq ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncattget ...      ok ***
> *** Testing ncattcopy ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncattname ...     ok ***
> *** Testing ncattrename ...   ok ***
> *** Testing ncattdel ...      ok ***
> *** Testing nctypelen ...     ok ***
> 
> returning to directory /home/zelda/bernard/gmt/netcdf-232pl2

The above also looks OK.

I would appear that you have successfully build and tested the netCDF
packge.  All you need to now is install it with `make install'.

Please let me know if you succeed.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>