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Sue, >Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 15:10:28 +1000 >From: "Xue (Sue) YANG" <address@hidden> >Organization: Australian Bureau of Meterology >To: "Steve Emmerson" <address@hidden> >Subject: RE: 20010808: building "-i8" Fortran interface >Keywords: 200107061719.f66HJK123471 The above message contained the following: > In C, there is data type 'long int' with 8 bytes size. We tried to compile > netcdf with option -i8 and it seems to work. I'm surprised. The netCDf package wouldn't build on our system IRIX chevy 6.5 04131232 IP22 with the "-i8" option. Do you have an IRIX or IRIX64 system? Did the netCDF package pass the "make test" stage? Regards, Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>