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Greetings! This particular tests is trying to contact the test.opendap.org server, which can be a unavailable sometimes. It's possible that the site is down (and still is), but if looks like it's only the dods test server - their opendap server is still running, as well as a few others, are still running. Until the dods test server returns, try using the --disable-dap-remote-tests when you run configure...this will skip the test causing the failure, but continue testing the rest of your install. Cheers, Sean > Hi, > > I got the following error while make check on successful installation of > netcdf-4.1.3. > > Is this crucial? Or can I can proceed with using it, if not please suggest > correction procedure. > > Thank you. > > syntax error, unexpected SCAN_WORD, expecting SCAN_ATTR or SCAN_DATASET or > SCAN_ERROR > context: <html^><head><title>Apache Tomcat/6.0.29 - Error > report</title><style><!--H1 > {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:22px;} > H2 > {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:16px;} > H3 > {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;font-size:14px;} > BODY > {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:black;background-color:white;} B > {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;color:white;background-color:#525D76;} > P > {font-family:Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif;background:white;color:black;font-size:12px;}A > {color : black;}A.name {color : black;}HR {color : #525D76;}--></style> > </head><body><h1>HTTP Status 404 - /dods/dts/test.06.dds</h1><HR size="1" > noshade="noshade"><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> > <u>/dods/dts/test.06.dds</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>The requested > resource (/dods/dts/test.06.dds) is not available.</u></p><HR size="1" > noshade="noshade"><h3>Apache Tomcat/6.0.29</h3></body></html> > Error: NetCDF: Malformed or inaccessible DAP DDS > FAIL: test_vara > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: PBU-164225 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open