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[netCDF #JMX-999814]: problems of installation of netcdf4.1.2

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  • Subject: [netCDF #JMX-999814]: problems of installation of netcdf4.1.2
  • Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 16:25:49 -0600
Hi,

Sorry it has taken so long to respond to your question ...
> I have installed netcdf4.1.2. But it does not find the functions with prefix 
> nf_
> when  I compile LAPS-0-46-1 software which from NOAA/ESRL/GSD. I check the
> compile process of LAPS, confirm it is correct. I think maybe netcdf is not
> correctly installed. I run "make check" after make it and find some errors. 
> But
> I don't known how to solve it. Could you give some suggestions to me?
> The attachment is the output of "make check"

The 2 errors you see from "make check":

> *** Test: varm on URL: 
> http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/testdods/coads_climatology.nc
> FAIL: test_varm3
> Error: NetCDF: I/O failure
> FAIL: test_vara
> ================================================
> 2 of 5 tests failed

are probably the result of a failure of the test server at 
motherlode.ucar.edu:8080,
which was moved to port 8081, rather than the netCDF library.  If you would run 
"make clean", rerun the netCDF configure script with the option 
"--disable-fortran-compiler-check", and then run "make check", the tests might 
all
succeed.  So netCDF may be correctly installed.

Not finding functions with prefix nf_ might be caused by several possible 
problems:

  1.  If the Fortran library was installed as a separate library, perhaps 
because
      both C and Fortran libraries were installed as shared libraries, you would
      need to link with both

          ... -lnetcdff -lnetcdf

      instead of just 

          ... -lnetcdf

  2.  If the netCDF Fortran library were built with a different Fortran compiler
      than the Fortran compiler you are trying to link with, the nf_ functions
      might not be found, if the compilers use different conventions for calling
      C functions from Fortran.

  3.  If the 4.1.2 library were compiled without Fortran support because the
      configure script could not locate a working Fortran compiler or because
      --disable-fortran was specified as a configure option, that might be the
      cause of the problem.

We would need more information to be able to distinguish among these or other 
possible sources for the problem.  For example, the complete output of the
library build, including config.log, output of configure, and output from 
"make check" might help.

--Russ


  

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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: JMX-999814
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed