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20001006: NetCDF errors on Mac OS X

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  • Subject: 20001006: NetCDF errors on Mac OS X
  • Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 08:42:17 -0600
Craig,

>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 00:58:45 -0400
>From: "Craig A. Mattocks" <address@hidden>
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20001006: NetCDF errors on Mac OS X
>Keywords: 200010050500.e9550A117969

The above message contained the following:

> Nope. I'm living in Chapel Hill, NC. My parents died and I was 
> selected as Executor of their estate. It's a long story.

Sorry to hear that.  Please accept my condolences.

> >I'd like to see the results of thoroughly testing the Fortran API.
> >Please do the following:
> >
> >     1.  Go to the "nf_test/" source directory.
> >
> >     2.      Execute the command "make test".  Redirect standard output and
> >     standard error to the file "test.log".  Send me the file.
> 
> I don't have a real Fortran 77/90 compiler, I am using netlib's f2c, 
> which is known to be lacking in its f90 capabilities.

I've successfully built and tested the netCDF package using "f2c".

> The Makefile 
> chokes fabulously but I was finally able to build nf_test by hand. 
> The tests produced zillions of errors (following). Any hope?
> 
> Thanks!
> Craig
> 
> /nf_test/{197}> ./nf_test
> *** Testing nf_strerror ...
> *** Testing nf_open ...
>   nf_open: No such file or directory
>   nf_redef of read-only file should fail
>   nf_open: No such file or directory
>   nf_close: Not a netCDF id
...

The above indicates an initial failure of the Fortran API -- it expects
a netcdf test-file to exist but it doesn't.  If you look in the
Makefile, you'll see that the command "./nf_test -c" must be executed
before the command "./nf_test".  The "-c" version of the command creates
an initial test-file.

Would you please send me the first page of output (both standard output
and standard error) from the following

    $ cd nf_test
    $ ./nf_test -c
    $ ./nf_test

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