Re: 970620: netCDF 2.4.3 installation

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>From: address@hidden (Kretzschmar)
>Subject: netCDF 2.4.3 installation
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>Keywords: 199706201314.HAA02210

Hi Klaus,

> we have encountered some problem installing netCDF on our PC (486,
> Linux) and would be very glad, if you could give us an advice. It does
> not seem to be a big problem: after expanding the file netcdf2.4.3.tar
> (I don't know, if this name is original) we proceeded with
> 
>     configure
>     make all
>     make test
>     make install
> 
> The latter command led to an error. The last output statements of
> `make install` were as follows:
> 
>     make[2] : Entering directory `/home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/src/ncdump`
>     case "catman" in \
>         '') : true ;; \
>         *)  catman -w -M /home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/man;; \
>     esac
>     catman: illegal option -- w
>     usage: catman [-dhV] [-M manpath] [section] ...
>     -d --debug                  produce debugging info.
>     -M --manpath path           set search path for manual pages to `path'.
>     -V --version                show version.
>     -h --help                   show this usage message.
>     make[2]: *** [/home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/man/whatis] Error 1
>     make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/src/ncdump'
>     make[1]: *** [installed_manuals] Error 2
>     make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kkre/netcdf-2.4.3/src/ncdump'
>     make: *** [ncdump/install] Error 1
> 
> Should we just omit the option `-w`  or should we change it ?

Yes, just omit it.  This is the last step in the install, and is only
necessary to provide formatted man files for quicker access, so they
don't need to be run through nroff/troff.

There is now a newer version of netCDF (version 3.3.1), available from

   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z

and also a binary release for Linux_2.0_i586 platforms from

   ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/linux_2.0-i586/netcdf-3.3.1.tar.Z

If you want to read about what changed with the new release, see

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/announce-3.3.html

--Russ

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