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> Dear Sir, > > I'm writing to this email address because it was given in your > website. However, I don't know whether writing to this address is > correct, so I apologise for any inconvenience. > > My report is about building netcdf in 64bit mode with a couple of > flags. This seems to be troublesome, a lot of environment variables > must be set before launching configure, not all of them being obvious: > > For Fortran, there're F90FLAGS, FFLAGS, FCFLAGS, and FCFLAGS_f90 Some > of them are recognised by configure, but are not passed to to the final > Makefile. It seems that F90FLAGS/FFLAGS is ignored, still a message is > printed out by configure that confirms the detection of these > variables. > > I think that this is very confusing. On Solaris, it might be helpful > to tell the user to pass -fast to the compiler before any other 64bit > options like -xarch=v9. Otherwise (at least with studio11) the > compiler will still generate 32 bit code which leads to interesting > error messages during the compilation. > > Best regards, > > Burkhard Neinhues > > -- > Dr. Burkhard Neinhues > Aerodynamics Domain, Building 65A > Tools and Simulations, EGAMG > AIRBUS Deutschland GmbH > D-28183 Bremen, Germany > > Phone: +49 421 538 7421 > FAX: +49 421 538 871 7421 > mailto:address@hidden > > > This e-mail is intended only for the above addressee. It may contain > privileged information. If you are not the addressee you must not > copy, distribute, disclose or use any of the information in it. If you > have received it in error please delete it and immediately notify the > sender. > > Security Notice: all e-mail, sent to or from this address, may be > accessed by someone other than the recipient, for system management and > security reasons. This access is controlled under Regulation of > security reasons. This access is controlled under Regulation of > Investigatory Powers Act 2000, Lawful Business Practises. > Thanks for pointing this out. I will look into this and get back to you... Thanks! Ed Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: RND-134504 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open