Re: 2.4.2 help

Hi Dick,

> I need a little help, if you can give it to me.  We installed 2.4.2 
> yesterday, and due to an installation error independent of netcdf,
> the products weren't available for a short while.  I think they are,
> but I have no little test to run.  "make test" won't work because I need
> root privileges to test the stuff within /usr/local and I don't have 'em.  

You can build netcdf in your own directory and run tests in any of the
libsrc/, nctest/, fortran/, ncdump/, ncgen/, or cxx/ subdirectories by
changing to the subdirectory, running "make clean test" to observe how it
is compiled and linked, then compile and link the same way except refer to
the include files and libraries in /usr/local/ instead of the ones in your
directory.

Another way to do the same thing would be to build netcdf in your local
directory but then replace the locally-built libraries, include files, and
executables with links to the ones in /usr/local/, then run make test to
verify that everything works with the installed copies.

> I tried compiling a little program 
> 
>       INCLUDE 'netcdf.inc'
>       call putgetg
>       call sharray
>       end
> 
> to see if I could load the routines, but cf77 complained 
> 
>  cft77-360 cf77: ERROR , Line = 1, File = junk.f, Line = 1
>    Unable to open file named in INCLUDE line.
> 
> even though /usr/local/include/netcdf.inc is in place.

You probably would have needed the appropriate -I/usr/local/include/ flag
to the Fortran compiler so it would have known where to look.

Good luck.

--Russ