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Lucy, > Hi! When I run > service2[9:01am]/scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/src> ./configure > --prefix=/scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22 > and then > make > and then > make check > and > make install > > 'make install' fails with: > > make[5]: Entering directory `/scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/src/lib' > cd /scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/share/doc/udunits && \ > rm -rf udunits*.xml && \ > ln -s ../../udunits/*.xml . > /bin/sh: line 0: cd: /scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/share/doc/udunits: No > such file or directory > make[5]: *** [install-data-hook] Error 1 > make[5]: Leaving directory `/scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/src/lib' > make[4]: *** [install-data-am] Error 2 > make[4]: Leaving directory `/scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/src/lib' > make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2 > make[3]: Leaving directory `/scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/src/lib' > make[2]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > make[2]: Leaving directory `/scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/src/lib' > make[1]: *** [install] Error 2 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/src/lib' > make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 > > This happens with our Altix 8200 ICE cluster running SLES 11 > and on my Ubuntu quad-processor workstation, both X86_64 machines. > > If I first create the subdirectories > scratch/lmc/NETCDF/udunits-2.1.22/share/doc/udunits > ^ ^ ^ > the install succeeds. Did you configure the UDUNITS-2 package, which is a subpackage within the netCDF package, using the configure(1) script of the netCDF package or did you configure the UDUNITS-2 package separately and manually? > Lucy Carruthers Research Computing Group, Univ of Arizona Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: ELF-296128 Department: Support UDUNITS Priority: Normal Status: Closed