Re: 19981014: NetCDF Spanish installation problems

Javier,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Javier Maldonado Miranda <address@hidden>
> Subject: installation question about netcdf-2.4.2
> Organization: Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra
> Keywords: 199810141118.FAA20548

In the above message, you wrote:

> I've just installed your program netcdf-2.4.2 on my machine. It's
> an Ultra SPARC 10 and I'm using Workshop package from SUN as cc and
> fortran compilers.
>
> I've runned the test process and it gives no errors. My problem comes
> when I make the install option. It seems it's working fine but gives
> one error wich is this one:
> 
> localidad es es, ruta-man no válida /usr/local/netcdf-2.4.2/man/es
> 
> (translation from Spanish: place es es, not valid man-route 
> /usr/local/netcdf-2.4.2/man/es )
> 
> As you may see my machine gives the messages in Spanish (option
> es). My question is if I'm getting this error because some of my
> enviroment variables are set to Spanish. Do I have to set all of them
> to C?.

I'm afraid I've never delt with installing the netCDF package under the
Spanish option -- so all I can do is make some educated guesses.

The manual pages for the netCDF package should have been installed under
$(MANDIR), where $(MANDIR) is a sub-directory of the directory that
contains the installed netCDF package.  The value for $(MANDIR) is set
in the file "macros.make" in the top-level source directory of the
netCDF package.  For example, if the installation directory were
"/opt/netcdf", then the manual pages would be found under
"/opt/netcdf/man" in the subdirectories "man1" and "man3".

The solaris "man" utility uses the environment variable MANPATH to
locate manual pages.  So a user of the previous example might include
the directory "/opt/netcdf/man" in their MANPATH environment variable in
order to automatically locate the netCDF manual pages.

It appears to me that either your MANPATH contains the directory
"/usr/local/netcdf-2.4.2/man/es" (which doesn't exist) or that the
man(1) utility is automatically appending the suffix "/es" to the paths
in the MANPATH environment variable in order to locate manual pages in
Spanish (and those directories don't exist).  I suggest setting your
locale to "C" (see the locale(1) utility) and/or changing the value of
your MANPATH environment variable.

Please let me know if this helps.

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