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Carl,

>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 10:55:56 -0700 
>From: address@hidden (Carl M. Lund)
>Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
>To: address@hidden
>Keywords: 199608221440.AA29398

In the above message you wrote:

> Having gotten jackets.c, netcdf.inc and ftest.f made on a different
> UNIX platform per your "known problems" file, I now can "make all", but
> "make test" gives an error message.  What does this failure mean?  Below is
> my last installation pass, including "make test".
...
> making `test' in directory /usr/tmp/cmlund/dnetcdf/netcdf-2.4.3/src/nctest
> 
> c89 -o nctest -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
>         ./nctest
> *** Testing nccreate ...        Unable to open file: testfile.nc
> Error Explanation:
> ok ***
> *** Testing ncopen ...          Unable to open file: tooth-fairy.nc
> Error Explanation:Make: "./nctest" terminated due to signal 11 (core dumped)
> 
> Stop.
> Make: "dir=`echo nctest/test | sed 's,/.*,,'`; \
>     target=`echo nctest/test | sed "s,$dir/,,"`; \
>     cd $dir && \
>     echo "making \`$target' in directory `pwd`" && \
>     echo "" && \
>     make  \
>         prefix=/usr/tmp/cmlund/dnetcdf/netcdf-2.4.3
> exec_prefix=/usr/tmp/cmlund/dnetcdf/netcdf-2.4.3 \
>         $target || exit 1": Error code 1
> rho - 47 >logout

Try applying the enclosed patch to libsrc/xdrffio.c.  Then re-execute a
`make all' and a `make test'.  Please let me know what you discover.

--------
Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>


--------Begin patch
Index: xdrffio.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /upc/share/CVS/netcdf/libsrc/xdrffio.c,v
retrieving revision 2.7
diff -c -r2.7 xdrffio.c
*** 2.7 1996/06/27 19:38:48
--- xdrffio.c   1996/08/26 18:48:11
***************
*** 349,355 ****
--- 349,364 ----
         * we will try to issue the message directly to
         * file handle 2 (stderr)
         *
+        *
         */
+ #if 1
+        /*
+         * I don't see it.  Steve Emmerson 1996-08-26
+         */
+           nc_serror("filename \"%s\"", path) ;
+ #else
+           if( ncopts & NC_VERBOSE )
+           {
                write(2,mess1,strlen(mess1));
                write(2,path,strlen(path));
                write(2,mess2,1); /* end of line */
***************
*** 357,364 ****
                write(2,_fdc_errlist[stat.sw_error - 5000],
                        strlen(_fdc_errlist[stat.sw_error - 5000]));
                write(2,mess2,1); /* end of line */
-               /* nc_serror("filename \"%s\"", path) ; */
                return (-1);
        }
  
        if( ncmode & NC_CREAT ) {
--- 366,374 ----
                write(2,_fdc_errlist[stat.sw_error - 5000],
                        strlen(_fdc_errlist[stat.sw_error - 5000]));
                write(2,mess2,1); /* end of line */
                return (-1);
+           }
+ #endif
        }
  
        if( ncmode & NC_CREAT ) {