20040514: netCDF Perl Interface - SUNOS air-sea 5.8 Generic_108528

Ileana,

>Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 10:18:56 +0200
>From: ileana blade <address@hidden>
>Organization: University of Barcelona
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20040514: netCDF Perl Interface - SUNOS air-sea 5.8 Generic_108528
> Keywords: 200405141115.i4EBFTc5014920 netCDF-Perl

The above message contained the following:

> I don't understand. My version is
> 
> This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for sun4-solaris
> 
> and the instructions for netCDFPerl says:
> 
> PREREQUISITES
>   -------------
>   In order to incorporate netCDFPerl, you must already have version of
>   perl 5.003 (or later) installed on your system.

Hmm...  The documentation appears to be out-of-date.  I'll have to fix
that.

> So why is it a "very old version" ?

Version 5.003 is several years old.  It doesn't understand the POLLUTE
variable, which is necessary to build the netCDF-Perl package with more
recent version of the perl(1) package.  The perl authors changed the way
3rd-party packages interface with the perl(1) utility and it was
necessary to adapt the netCDF-Perl package to the new conventions.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson