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Hi Paul, > As you know, GMT is using netCDF for grids, and many GMT users are > now 'switching' back to Macs because of OSX. I understand that your > group does not have access to Mac OSX for testing. However, I think > it would be ideal if some testing could take place on OSX before > releases. Remko Scharro, on the GMT developer team and cc'ed in this > message, has spent some time looking into this problem and should > soon send you some info that might improve the installability of > netCDF on Mac OSX (32 and 64 bit versions). Allthough I hope your > group would be able to acquire a Mac for testing (a plain Mac mini > goes for < $500 and would let you test 32-bit G4 chips; an iMac G5 > (64-bit) can be had for < $1,200), in the mean time I would be happy > to grant you ssh login privileges on my G5 for testing netCDF. Since > I am in Sydney this year it would work well with the time-zone shifts. We have had a Mac OSX platform for testing for some time (though not a G5), and even distribute the current release in the form of a precompiled ".pkg" file that installs when you double-click it: ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/darwin_7.8-power_macintosh/netcdf-3.6.0-p1.pkg.zip I can see why you might conclude we have no support for Mac OSX, since it's not actually mentioned anywhere on our "NetCDF Installation and Porting Guide" page at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packges/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install/ but it is listed as a supported platform in our "NetCDF Binaries" page at http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/binaries.html and it's listed as a supported platform in answer to the FAQ "What does netCDF run on?": http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs/faq.html#platforms The machine we test and build on is my G4 PowerBook (running 10.4.2 currently). Apple doesn't supply a Fortran compiler, but I've built successfully with g77 and Absoft, and I wrote some notes about the latter build: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/docs/other-builds.html#absoft I'll see if I can make our support for Mac OSX more apparent on our web site. Incidentally. I've never owned a Windows machine and I'm now on my second Mac OSX laptop, but I still develop on a Sun at work. I'm a big fan of Macs ... > I note that although setting FC=<blank> skips building the Fortran > interface, make test still tries to test the Fortran interface and > tries to run fort77 which fails on Mac OSX. OK, thanks, we'll fix it if we can reproduce the problem. I see there's another email from Remko Scharroo on this subject, so I'll send a separate reply to that. --Russ