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Michael, >Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 13:36:43 -0700 >From: "Michael P. Urban" <address@hidden> >Organization: NASA/JPL >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 20001026: NetCDF-Perl-1.2.1 "make test" failure >Keywords: 200010261832.e9QIWj405557 The above message contained the following: > > We no longer have that version of perl on our SunOS 5 systems: we use > > version 5.6.0 instead. Version 5.6 is turning out to be significantly > > different than version 5.5 in some of the very low-level stuff (like > > support for extension modules). Is there any chance of your upgrading? > > I attempted this on another system with Perl 5.6 and Solaris 8, and got > the same result from make test: > > making `test' in directory /tmp/netcdf-perl-1.2.1/src/perl > > mkdir blib/lib > mkdir blib/lib/auto > mkdir blib/lib/auto/NetCDF > cp NetCDF.pm blib/lib/NetCDF.pm > AutoSplitting blib/lib/NetCDF.pm (blib/lib/auto/NetCDF) > PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib > -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/sun4-solaris -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0 test.pl > Can't load 'blib/arch/auto/NetCDF/NetCDF.so' for module NetCDF: ld.so.1: The last line above would seem to indicate that a "make" had not been previously done. A "make test" tests the netcdf-perl package that has just been created. Was a "make" done before the "make test"? Does the file "perl/blib/arch/auto/NetCDF/NetCDF.so" exist? Regards, Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>