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Re: 960905: netcdf-3.1a "configure" problems

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  • Subject: Re: 960905: netcdf-3.1a "configure" problems
  • Date: Thu, 05 Sep 1996 10:09:05 -0600
>From: address@hidden (Annette Koontz)
>Subject: netcdf-3.1a "configure" problems
>Organization: Battelle PNL
>Keywords: 199609051434.AA17837

Hi Annette,

> I have installed the prerelease version (C only) of netcdf version 3.1a on
> our Sun Solaris system. Here's the "uname" info:
> 
> SunOS radius 5.5 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-20
> 
> 
> I encountered some syntax problems in the configure file. There were
> several instances of syntax that looked like
> 
>   if test $variable = yes
> 
> or
> 
>   if test $variable = no
> 
> that resulted in errors like
> 
>   test ... missing argument.
> 
> 
> I changed the above syntax to look like:
> 
>    if test "$variable" = yes
> or
>    if test "$variable" = no
> 
> and this seemed to correct the problem. After that, installation went OK,
> and the "make test" worked just fine. Also note that we are using GNU
> C for the compiler.

We'll try to find a way to correct this.  Since the configure script is
automatically generated by autoconf from "configure.in", this may be a
bug in the autoconf program.

Thanks for reporting the problem!

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu