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Hi Katy, This is a known issue related to a change in our test server configuration. Recent releases fix it by pointing directly to our new test servers. So, the failure is on our end, not yours. You can complete testing and installation of earlier releases the netCDF C library and utilities by following these steps: 1. Run "make clean" in the top level directory of your source netCDF source (or unpack the source again in a new source directory) 2. Run the "configure" script again, but this time add the following option to whatever options you previously specified: --disable-dap-remote-tests 3. Run "make check" and verify that it now completes successfully. 4. Run "make install", or "sudo make install" if needed. That should get you past the problem with our test server and allow the installation to complete successfully. Please let us know if you encounter additional errors. --Russ > In trying to build netcdf-4.1.2 I came up with the following letter. > > *** Testing netcdf file functions some more. > syntax error, unexpected SCAN_WORD, expecting SCAN_ATTR or SCAN_DATASET or > SCAN_ERROR > context: <html^><head><title>Apache Tomcat/7.0.57 - 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.01.dds</h1><HR size="1" > noshade="noshade"><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> > <u>/dods/dts/test.01.dds</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>The requested > resource is not available.</u></p><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><h3>Apache > Tomcat/7.0.57</h3>< /body></html> > *** testing simple opendap open/close...Sorry! Unexpected result, > tst_files6.c, line: 24 > FAIL: tst_files6 Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ARR-765095 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed