[netCDF #CSW-380765]: netcdf Sun make check fails

Chris,

First, you can finish the netCDF installation by just commenting out the last
test in the file
ncdump/tst_lengths.sh, by changing the line:

  test `ls -l small2.nc | awk '{print $5}'` = 105;

to

  # test `ls -l small2.nc | awk '{print $5}'` = 105;

The specific problem that's breaking the test is that your "ls" command is not
printing the "group"
field or the name of your group is blank, so the fifth field that's being
tested in the line

  -rw-r----- 1 chrisc 105 Feb 19 15:01 small2.nc

is not "105", but "Feb".  If I'd looked at the output more carefully last week,
I should have seen this.
It's possible you are using a non-standard "ls" command or you have "ls"
aliased to something that
omits the group name, such as "ls -o".

One possible fix would be to use "/bin/ls -l -n small2.nc" instead of just "ls
-l small2.nc", which would
print the group GID number instead of group name, in case the group name is
blank, and would avoid
use of any alias defined for "ls".  You could test that this works by making
the appropriate substitution.

Anyway, thanks for persisting and demonstrating the problem with the test.
We'll have to think about
the best fix for the next release.

--Russ



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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: CSW-380765
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed