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Re: 970805: help on netCDF installation

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  • Subject: Re: 970805: help on netCDF installation
  • Date: Tue, 05 Aug 1997 08:41:13 -0600
>From: address@hidden (Fuzia Larif)
>Subject: help on netcdf installation
>Organization: ?
>Keywords: 199708051029.EAA29823 netCDF make Sun Solaris

Hi Fuzia,

>       I'm trying to install netcdf in my system. I work on sun staion, 
> the out put from 'uname -a' gives:
>     SunOS dungbeatle 5.5 Generic sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10. 
>        My problem is that: when I execute the command make, it gives the 
> following result 
> dungbeatle% /usr/ccs/bin/make
> make: Warning: Can't find `macros.make': No such file or directory
> make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 4: Read of include file 
> `macros.make' failed.
>      I couldn't find the file macros.make in the netcdf package.
> Can you please give me some explanation about this?

To build and install netCDF, you need to read and follow the
instructions in the INSTALL file in the netcdf-3.3.1/src/ directory.

In particular, you need to run the "configure" script before trying to
run "make", because the "configure" script generates some files, such as
"macros.make", that are used by "make".

Running the "configure" script determines what compilers are available
and figures out various other configuration parameters needed to build
the package.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
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