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Re: 19990602: netcdf "make test" failure under Red Hat Linux 2.2.5

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  • Subject: Re: 19990602: netcdf "make test" failure under Red Hat Linux 2.2.5
  • Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 14:53:17 -0600
Graham,

>Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 20:32:59 +0000
>From: Graham Campbell <address@hidden>
>Organization: Brookhaven National Laboratory
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 19990602: netcdf "make test" failure under Red Hat Linux 2.2.5
>Keywords: 199905282013.OAA17107

In the above message, you wrote:

> I have been told that this is Red Hat 6.0 freshly installed.

We have an older version of the Red Hat distribution (5.2) but a more
recent version of the kernel (2.2.6).  That hasn't caused us any
problems and your setup shouldn't cause you any problems either, I
think.

> We also have a brand new farm and there I get
> > uname -a
> Linux blc00.bnl.gov 2.2.7-1.8smp #1 SMP Sun May 23 17:57:15 PDT 1999 i686 
> unknown

That has a very recent kernel.

> gc@blc00[66]~/netcdf-linux/netcdf-3.4/src> cc --version
> egcs-2.91.66
> 
> which is the same egcs.  This was delivered by VAresearch as a
> preconfigured system. I am getting worse results from that system because
> of the same clock skew problem we saw yesterday on the other system.
> 
> I am trying to get hold of the sysadmin to see about getting you a login.

Ok.

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