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Re: 20050103: Wrong platform files in precompiled 3.6.0 binaries for Linux_2.4-i686

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  • Subject: Re: 20050103: Wrong platform files in precompiled 3.6.0 binaries for Linux_2.4-i686
  • Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:06:53 -0700
>To: <address@hidden>
>From: "Roy Willy Haug" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Wrong platform files in precompiled 3.6.0 binaries for Linux_2.4-i686
>Organization: ?
>Keywords: 200501031228.j03CSQlI006543 netCDF 3.6.0

Hi Roy, 

> I was trying to use the prebuilt binary for Netcdf 3.6.0 for linux as
> found on your web-site under
> ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/linux_2.4-i686/netcdf-3.6.0.tar.Z
> 
> It does not work on Linux/Intel. 
> 
> Running the following in a shell:
>       > file bin/ncdump
>  says that it is a sparc-file: 
> 
> ../netcdf.old/netcdf-3.6.0/bin/ncdump: ELF 32-bit MSB executable,
> SPARC32PLUS, V8+ Required, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses
> shared libs), not stripped

Thanks for pointing out the problem.  It should be fixed now, but
please let us know if it's not.  The binary distribution that's there
now has C and f77 interfaces, but no Fortran-90 interface.  If you
need a Fortran-90 interface with Linux, you'll have to build from
source.

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden          http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/russ