960328: netCDF 2.4.1 for Unicos 7.0.6

John,

>Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 14:53:47 -0500 (EST) 
>From: address@hidden (John Sheldon)
>Organization: NOAA/GFDL
>Subject: Re: 960328: netCDF 2.4.1 for Unicos 7.0.6 
>Keywords: 199603281505.AA27313

In the above message you wrote:

> Done. The 'if' now looks like this:
> 
>       if( fd == -1 ) {
>                fprintf(stderr, "ffopens(): stat.sw_error=%d\n",
>                              stat.sw_error);
>                fprintf(stderr, "ffopens(): %s\n", strerror(stat.sw_error));
>                perror("ffopens()");
>               nc_serror("filename \"%s\"", path) ;
>               return (-1);
>       }
> 
> Here's the result:
> 
> making `test' in directory 
> /ftmp/jps/tmpdir.045859a/unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-2.4.1/src/libsrc
> 
>         c89 -c -O -DDEBUG xdrffio.c
> cc-101 c89: WARNING xdrffio.c, Line = 43, File = /usr/include/rpc/types.h, 
> Line = 19
>   The macro "FALSE" is redefined.
> cc-101 c89: WARNING xdrffio.c, Line = 43, File = /usr/include/rpc/types.h, 
> Line = 20
>   The macro "TRUE" is redefined.
> 
> TOTAL WARNINGS DETECTED IN xdrffio.c: 2
>         ar rcuv libnetcdf.a array.o attr.o cdf.o dim.o file.o iarray.o 
> error.o  globdef.o putget.o putgetg.o sharray.o string.o var.o  xdrffio.o
> r - xdrffio.o
>         : libnetcdf.a
> c89 -o cdftest -O cdftest.o libnetcdf.a
>         ./cdftest > cdftest_out.new
> NCxdrfile_create(): path="test.nc"
> NCxdrfile_create(): fmode=0x502
> NCxdrfile_create(): ControlString="bufa:336:2"
> ffopens(): stat.sw_error=5025
> ffopens(): 
> ffopens(): Error 0
> nccreate: filename "test.nc"
> trying again
> NCxdrfile_create(): path="test.nc"
> NCxdrfile_create(): fmode=0x302
> NCxdrfile_create(): ControlString="bufa:336:2"
> ffopens(): stat.sw_error=5025
> ffopens(): 
> ffopens(): Error 0
> nccreate: filename "test.nc"
> nccreate: couldn't remove filename "test.nc": No such file or directory
> Make: "./cdftest > cdftest_out.new": Error code 2
> Make: "dir=`echo libsrc/test | sed 's,/.*,,'`; \
>     target=`echo libsrc/test | sed "s,$dir/,,"`; \
>     cd $dir && \
>     echo "making \`$target' in directory `pwd`" && \
>     echo "" && \
>     make  CC="c89"  CPP="c89 -E"  
> exec_prefix="/ftmp/jps/tmpdir.045859a/unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-2.4.1"
>   FC="cf77"  
> prefix="/ftmp/jps/tmpdir.045859a/unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-2.4.1" \
>         
> prefix=/ftmp/jps/tmpdir.045859a/unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-2.4.1 
> exec_prefix=/ftmp/jps/tmpdir.045859a/unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-2.4.1 
> \
>         $target || exit 1": Error code 1

According to /usr/include/liberrno.h on our UNICOS 8 Y-MP, an error code
of 5025 means the following:

    Bad open spec, usually layer

(You should check this with your header files.)  I suspect that this
error message refers to the ffopens() `ControlString' argument, which
has the following value:

    bufa:336:2

I further suspect that the above specification is incompatible, in some
way, with UNICOS 7.  Is there anyone out there who would know?

I suggest you look up the meaning of this argument, find some likely
values, and then try setting the environment variable NETCDF_FFIOSPEC to
them and re-executing the `make test' (the function we've been modifying
first looks at the environment variable).  When you've found a value
that works, you can replace the default value in the function with it.

Please let me know what you find.

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>