971111: installing NetCDF 3.3.1 under Linux using fort77(1)

Alec,

>Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 08:54:01 +0200 (SAT) 
>From: Alec Joubert <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of the Witwatersrand/Climatology Research Group
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: installing NetCDF 3.3.1 using fort77 
>Keywords: 199711051121.EAA12731

In the above message, you wrote:

> Hi Steve
> 
> I think I've located my most recent problem.
> 
> Among the thousands of warning messages which don't appear to be
> troublesome, there are a set like the one below. As I've said, netcdf
> seems to install fine, but errors in compilations of my code seem to refer
> to this warning message below. I've included the output from the
> ./configure command to give you an idea of what netcdf is using.
> 
> All of these errors seem to occur when trying to "make all" in the fortran
> directory. 
> 
>  Warning on line 196: inconsistent calling sequences for ncagt,
>         arg 4: here integer*2 variable, previously integer*1 variable.

The netCDF Fortran routine NCAGT is part of the netCDF version 2
backward compatibility library and is used to obtain the value of a
netCDF attribute.  The value may be one of several types (text, byte,
integer, etc.); consequently, the Fortran compiler doesn't like the fact
that the testing code uses different types to hold the returned value.

This is why the "-w" option to the fort77(1) utility is necessary.

> 
> Other netcdf calls that are affected include:
> 
> Warning on line 196: inconsistent calling sequences for ncagt, 
> Warning on line 494: inconsistent calling sequences for ncapt, 
> Warning on line 922: inconsistent calling sequences for ncvgt, 
> Warning on line 1039: inconsistent calling sequences for ncvgt1, 
> Warning on line 1126: inconsistent calling sequences for ncvpt, 
> Warning on line 1217: inconsistent calling sequences for ncvpt1, ~

Same cause; same solution (-w).

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>