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Re: 19990603: netcdf "make test" failure under Red Hat Linux 2.2.5

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  • Subject: Re: 19990603: netcdf "make test" failure under Red Hat Linux 2.2.5
  • Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 08:25:10 -0600
Graham,

>Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 21:03:57 -0400
>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:

> Many thanks for all your trouble. I hate things like this, that seem to have
> no explanation. I have to note that this was not a one time failure. I tried
> several different variants of the parameters, even went back at one point an
> started fresh from the tar file. Everything failed in the same way!

Since the netCDF package built correctly on one of your systems but not
another, it could be that there's something wrong with the development
environment on the one system.  I'm thinking, in particular, of the C
compiler.  The GNU C compiler has many hardware-dependent options for
building it (it can be sensitive to the differences between an Intel CPU
and a "pin-compatible" one from AMD, for example).  It could be that the
C compiler isn't quite right on the one system.  You might keep this in
mind if you notice other wierdnesses on that system.

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