[netCDF #FIL-651276]: netcdf-c-4.3.1-rc2 ncdump test failures

Hello Dom,

I'll be happy to investigate this for you; unfortunately, the config.log file 
didn't come through on our end. If you would be so kind as to re-send it, I 
will start looking into this. 

Thanks, have a good day,

-Ward


> Hi,
> 
> I built netcdf-c-4.3.1 from the latest release candidate 2 against 
> hdf5-1.8.11, 64bit, compiled by the sysadmins of the HPC I am using (IBM 
> Power6). Unfortunately, make check fails in directory ncdump for 5 tests, and 
> I think they are all related to scalar variables/dataspaces in NetCDF4 files.
> 
> I read about a problem with scalar data in NetCDF4 files with the earlier 
> version 4.3.0 (for which I got three failures in ncdump) and that this was 
> fixed in rc1. Presumably my assumption that the bug was related to the 
> failures was wrong?
> 
> I am attaching my config.log that contains all the necessary information for 
> my build and the ncdump/test-suite.log.
> 
> Note that I can use the NetCDF library without problems with WRF, so I am not 
> sure if it is a real problem - but I wanted to report it as requested in the 
> make check output.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Dom
> 
> --
> Dr. Dominikus Heinzeller
> 
> Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
> Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK-IFU)
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> 
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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: FIL-651276
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Open