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Colin, I actually did find a way to build 4.1.3 on modern OSX systems, but it requires inserting an additional statement in one of the source files, as described here: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/known_problems.html#clang-ncgen3 Assuming you've got HDF5 installed in $H5DIR, you can then configure with --disable-dap-remote-tests, build, and install: DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=${H5DIR}/lib CPPFLAGS="-I${H5DIR}/include" LDFLAGS="-L${H5DIR}/lib" ./configure --prefix="${NCDIR}" --disable-dap-remote-tests && make all && make check && make install However, getting a new version is preferred, with three years of bug fixes and other improvements ... --Russ > Both Russ and I have tried compiling 4.1.3 on our OSX workstations and also > fail to get netcdf to build. Given the age of the release, there's > unfortunately nothing to be done for modern platforms on our end. You may > want to try the latest release, 4.3.2. Note that, starting with netcdf 4.2, > the fortran and C++ functionality has been split out from the main library > and must be installed separately. You can download the source code from > these libraries at the following pages: > > http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/releases > http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran/releases > http://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-cxx4/releases > > I hope this helps, I'm sorry we can't provide a solution for building 4.1.3 > on a modern OSX machine. > > -Ward > > > To whom it may concern: > > > > I included some of the necessary information in my email; 2 of the 7 tests > > failed partway through my installation, namely test_vara and test_varm3. Is > > this a known issue? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Colin Raymond > > > > Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: BFT-227872 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed