20010711: installing NETCDF.mod under UNICOS

Andrew,

>Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 17:59:57 +1000 (EST)
>From: Andrew Roberts <address@hidden>
>Organization: ?
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20010711: installing NETCDF.mod under UNICOS
>Keywords: 200107120800.f6C80Q108648

The above message contained the following:

> We have had no problems creating a netcdf.mod file prior to your email
> (we'd already done what you suggested). The .mod file is recognised at
> compile time.  However at  compilation, the following message appears:
>  ldr-183 f90: CAUTION 
>      Object file '/usr/local/netcdf/include/netcdf.mod' either is empty 
> or contains no object modules.
> 
> The program runs OK but UNICOS is a little confused with a module file not
> containing objects, as it usually writes an object.o  file for all modules
> in f90, without using a .mod file.  It finds the objects in the library
> files despite the CAUTION message.
> 
> This CAUTION message also confused me as I took it that the program had
> not properly used the netcdf libraries.  In short, the library works, even
> with this message.

Sounds like a problem with the Fortran development environment.  You
might show it to some systems people.

> Apologies for troubling you; I don't know if this feedback is of any
> help to you or not.

The feedback got me off my butt to fix a problem.  That's got to be a
good thing.  :-)

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