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> Dear Support, > I am sorry I must bother you with my failure to install Netcdf > on either of my two macs. But honestly I did spend the better > portion of the day perusing your faq and support pages on the web > looking for suggestions to try. So finally I broke down and thought > I would write you for help. That's what I am here for... > My goal is to be able to use Fortran 77 to make and read Netcdf > datafiles of climate reconstructions on a lat. x long. grid. A > fortran 77 program produces the millenia length reconstructions and > it is this output that I would like to store in a file. Everyone > tells me Netcdf is the perfect format for the job so here I am trying > to install the software. Anyway, here is where I start with the > instructions from the 3.6.2-beta4 Install guide > > <snip> > > In a perfect world, I would like to use Absofts ProFortran 9.0 > f77 compiler for the job, but I would not be too put out to use the > gnu compiler either both are installed on both my macs (G5 and G4 > PowerBook os10.4). NetCDF is known to work with both Absoft and GNU compilers, but I don't have an absoft compiler here to test on. > I have learned something from the hours reading through your > pages and docs. For starters, I am including the log file from the > configuration step and a partial screen capture from the "make check" > which is when the installation stops with these final lines. > Try setting CPPFLAGS=-DAbsoftProFortran Do a make distclean, and start over. If this doesn't work, please send the *complete* output of configure and make test. Thanks! Ed Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ATH-750680 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open