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> > [Hopefully these tests are helping out rather than annoying people.] > Howdy Mary! Test results are never, ever annoying! I love them. Thanks for sending them. > I built netcdf-4.1.1-rc2 on a 32-bit PPC MacOS 10.5 system. > > It failed in a different place than my other systems, so I thought I'd > include the files here. > It seemed to have only failed in one place: > > *** Checking HDF5 dimension scales. > *** Creating simple dimension scales file, with scale detach...Sorry! > Unexpected result, tst_h_dimscales1.c, line: 70 > 1 failures > 1 errors detected! Sorry! > FAIL: tst_h_dimscales1 > > > This looks like an out-of-date HDF5 installation. You need 1.8.4-patch1. All of the tst_h_*.c tests are tests of the HDF5 layer only (hence the _h_ in the name). So whenever one of those tests fails, it's something wrong with the HDF5 install. In fact, the tst_h_* programs include many HDF5-only tests that I sent to the HDF5 team when a netCDF user has found a bug that has turned out to be in HDF5. Thanks, Ed Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: VWA-170047 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed