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>To: address@hidden >From: Daan Vogelezang <address@hidden> >Subject: netcdf problem >Organization: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute >Keywords: 199702281138.EAA24913 Hi Daan, > I am currently using netCDF software (v 2.3.2 june 1993) but have a > compiling problem on my new workstation (SGI O2 MIPS R10000, IRIX 6.3). > The f90 compiler does not support -32 compilation. Only -n32 or -64 > works. > However using either one, I get an errormessage: "bfd assertion fail > elf.c:690" and "ranlib: libnetcdf.a is not an archive". Can you tell me > how to get a 64-bit compiled libnetcdf.a library. Since this one is > necessary for my work. It may be simply adding some compiler options. > > Another possiblity is to tell me how to get a newer version (if it > exists) of netCDF which does not have this problem? The currently released version (2.4.3) is available as the file netcdf.tar.Z from the directory: ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/ A pre-release of netCDF version 3 is also available, but the Fortran support for version 3 will not be available until the next release, hopefully some time this month. More information about netCDF is available from the netCDF Web site at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/ and especially you might want to look at the "What's New with netCDF" page at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/whatsnew.html for announcements and information about new releases. It turns out that there is a compiler error under IRIX 6.2 which may not have been fixed for IRIX 6.3, but we have a workaround described on the page of "Known Problems with the Current Release" at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/known_problems.html#irix-bug There's also a discussion of the "-n32" and "-64" options in a previous netCDF support response at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/netcdf/1946 Please let us know if you need more information. --Russ _____________________________________________________________________ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu