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971125: configure for netcdf 3.3.1 under sunos4

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  • Subject: 971125: configure for netcdf 3.3.1 under sunos4
  • Date: Tue, 25 Nov 97 09:05:04 -0700
Rob,

>Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 17:07:33 -0700 (MST) 
>From: Rob Folkert <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/NCAR/CGD
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 971124: configure for netcdf 3.3.1 under sunos4 
>Keywords: 199711242203.PAA24464

In the above message, you wrote:

> > I think I understand what you're trying to do: you want to decode the
> > ASCII NWS family-of-services products that you receive via your LDM.
> > Is this correct?
> 
> I try to translate q-fluxes into netcdf format and I try to translate
> downscaled squared data from hadcm2, to netcdf. All this data is in ascii.

Where does the data come from?  Is it over the Internet Data
Distribution (IDD) system via the Unidata Local Data Manager (LDM)?

> > Executing the command "./configure" (without the quotes) cannot result
> > in the error "%: Too many arguments.".  It appears that you are
> > executing the command "% ./configure" instead.  The "%" was given as an
> > example of a shell prompt; don't enter it as part of the command.
> 
> Well I did that too, with the same  error messages.

I would like to see that.  Would you please do the following:

    1.  Go to the top-level, netCDF source directory.

    2.  Execute one of the following commands depending on which user
        shell you're using:

            If you're using a csh-like shell (i.e. csh, tcsh, etc.):

                ./configure >&! configure.log

            If you're using an sh-like shell (i.e. sh, ksh, bash, etc.):

                ./configure >configure.log 2>&1

    3.  Send me the file "configure.log".

> I decided to try it on
> winterpark. You got that email to. I tried it two times, but when  I tried
> to install pearl I already run out of disk space, so this is not a
> solution
> 
> Is not there any installed package at NCAR around, possibly on a cray??? I
> do not get anywhere installing all this stuff, and I am surely not a
> systemsadminstrator, do not you have a simple to go solution for me???

There is a binary-only distribution of the netCDF package for SunOS 4.1.
It's available at the following URL:

    ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/sunos_4.1-sparc/
    
as the file "netcdf-3.3.1.tar.Z".  Other, binary-only, packages are
there as well.  Be advised that binary-only distributions might not work
on your particular system.

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