20031209: problems compiling large file netCDF on Sun Ultra-60

Santiago,

>Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:46:57 -0500
>From: "Santiago Gasso'" <address@hidden>
>Organization: NASA/GFSC
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20031209: problems compiling large file netCDF on Sun Ultra-60 

The above message contained the following:

> I think I fixed the problem , I still need to check some issues and run the 
> code but this is definitely good progress. You were right, they were 
> platform specific problems, not netCDF strictly related

I'm glad you solved the problem.

> So, I apologize for bugging you but I didn't know what to do since I am not 
> knowledgeable on these issues.
> I wrote a few comments down below on I fixed it.

I'll put them in our database -- it might help someone with a similar
problem.

> The compiling flag that works is  -xarch=v8  (or 
> generic,native,v8plus,v8plusa and v8plusb) and none of the flags that are 
> supposed to be for 64 bits (See
> http://docs.sun.com/source/816-2457/3_options.html#pgfId-215597 ) . So this 
> is in conflict to what it was supposed to do and don't understand why.
... 
> When use the library path /usr/local/lib and /usr/local/include in my 
> Makefile (that is, the paths to the library where the computer manager 
> installed netCDF), I get a linking error , the same one as before but with 
> the addition of
> Undefined                       first referenced
>   symbol                             in file
> nf_strerror_                        handle_err.o
> 
> However, when I define the paths as /export/home/ji/netcdf-3.5.0/include 
> and /export/home/ji/netcdf-3.5.0/lib which are paths to a previous 
> installation of the same library (another user put it in his directory), I 
> do not get any errors and the compilation is successful.
... 

Regards,
Steve Emmerson