20020508: netcdf on UNICOS: non-support of primitive types

Verena,

>Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 14:27:06 +0200
>From: Verena Cals <address@hidden>
>Organization: Stratosphäre / Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: netcdf-3.5.0 / Cray
>Keywords: 200204250907.g3P97sa28336

The above message contained the following:

> I'm sorry to say, that executing 'make test' still occurs an error
> message. Since I've removed the ..._FourByteInt and ..._FourByteReal in
> src/f90/netcdf_overloads.f90, the error in make test occurs earlier than
> before.

The error that occurs:

    Making `test' in directory
    /usr_FZJ/jicg11/jicg1113/netcdf-3.5.0/src/libsrc
     
            /opt/ctl/bin/cc -c -O3 -I.  -DNDEBUG t_nc.c
    FORCE: No action was taken.
            ar cru libnetcdf.a attr.o  dim.o  error.o  libvers.o  nc.o 
    ncio.o  ncx.o  putget.o  string.o  v1hpg.o  v2i.o  var.o
            : libnetcdf.a
            /opt/ctl/bin/cc -o t_nc -O3  t_nc.o -L. -lnetcdf
            ./t_nc
    UT062 - tfork2() system call failed
    Make: "./t_nc" terminated due to signal 6 (core dumped)
    Make: "cd libsrc && \
        echo "Making \`test' in directory `pwd`" && \
        echo "" && \
        make test || exit 1": Error code 1
    Make: "subdir=`echo libsrc/test | sed 's,/.*,,'`; \
    target=`echo libsrc/test | sed 's,.*/,,'`; \
    make SUBDIR=$subdir TGET=$target subdir_target": Error code 1
    cmd-2436 make: Stop.

has nothing to do with your previous problem regarding Fortran-90 and
support for primitive types. Rather, it appears that the make(1) utility
couldn't fork a child process in which to execute the "t_nc" test
utility of the "libsrc/" subdirectory. This problem is outside the scope
of the netCDF package. I suggest that you show the above to your system
administrator.

Once this problem is fixed, you should be able to re-execute the "make
test" from the top-level source directory.

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