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Dear Dr. Kniveton, Would you please try the following: 1. Go to the top-level source directory of the UDUNITS package. 2. Perform steps 3 through 5 near the end of the file INSTALL. For a SunOS 5.7/SPARC system, I suggest the following setting for the CC environment variable: CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/cc If you don't have the above compiler, then you should still set CC to the absolute pathname of a Standard C compiler. The compiler you were using (/usr/ucb/cc) is not a Standard C compiler and shouldn't be used. 3. Perform steps 6 through 9 near the end of the INSTALL file. Please let me know if this helps. Incidentally, not all user mail agents can handle BASE-64 encoded attachments (mine can't -- so I was unable to read your "config.log" file). I suggest including such files as plain text in the future. Regards, Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu> > From: address@hidden (Dominic Kniveton) > Subject: > Organization: University of Sussex > Keywords: 200103291204.f2TC4LL27392 netCDF UDUNITS > > I'm trying to read NetCDF files using a fortran program from CDC and it > requires me to compile with ludunits. i downloaded 'udunits_tar.Z' > uncompressed it and 'tar -xvf udunits_tar'. This gave me a file > directory 'udunits-1.11.7' which I went into then the directory 'src' > and tried to install the software. 'configure' seemed to work okay (see > attached log file) asking me two questions which I went with the > defaults. I then presumed I had to run the make files in each directory > starting with the lib directory using 'make install' this gave me the > following error message: > > cc -c -O -I../port/misc -I../port/cfortran -DUT_DEFAULT_PATH='"/home/cpe > s/chem/kafw3/udunits-1.11.7/etc/udunits.dat"' utlib.c > /usr/ucb/cc: language optional software package not installed > *** Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `utlib.o' > Current working directory /home/cpes/chem/kafw3/udunits-1.11.7/src/lib > ***Error code 1 > make: Fatal error: command failed for target `installed_library' > > > I'm completely in the dark on what this means ? Should I be running make > install? > when I type uname -a the response is > SunOS keeler.central.susx.ac.uk 5.7 Generic_106541-15 sun4u sparc > SUNW,Ultra-80 > > Any advice would be great - thanks in advance , Dom Kniveton > > * * * * * > Dr Dominic Kniveton > Lecturer > School of Chemistry, Physics and Environmental Sciences > University of Sussex > Brighton > BN1 9QJ > Tel: +44 1273 877757 > Fax: +44 1273 677196 > E-mail:address@hidden > http://www.geog.sussex.ac.uk/geographers/kniveton