20010809: building "-i8" Fortran interface

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>