20000615: build failure on Linux: missing VERSION

Andrew,

>Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:13:35 PDT
>From: "Andrew MacPherson" <address@hidden>
>Organization: ?
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: 20000614: build failure on Linux
>Keywords: 200006141439.e5EEdPT16857

In the above message, you wrote:

> Okay, I just ran 'make' again and received the following output/error
> (i guess the error messages were sent to standard output only and not to the 
> make.log file - sorry):
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory '/home/andrew/netCDF/netcdf-3.4/src'
> 
> Making 'all' in directory /home/andrew/netCDF/netcdf-3.4/src/libsrc
> 
> make[2]: Entering directory '/home/andrew/netCDF/netcdf-3.4/src/libsrc'
> make[2]: *** No rule to make target '../VERSION', needed by 'libvers.o'. 
> Stop.

Interesting.  The above error message indicates that the file VERSION in
the top-level source directory doesn't exist.  It this true?  If so,
then it indicates a structural problem with your unpacked distribution
and I would suggest reobtaining the distribution and reunpacking it.

> make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/andrew/netCDF/netcdf-3.4/src/libsrc'
> make[1]: *** [subdir_target] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/andrew/netCDF/netcdf-3.4/src'
> make: *** [libsrc/all] Error 2
> 
> -----------
> And there was no output when I executed the command "cc -c -O -I.  -DNDEBUG 
> error.c" in the libsrc directory.

That's probably because it succeeded.

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