Successfull (almost) build of netcdf 1.11 on SGI/Irix 3.3.1

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• Subject: Successfull (almost) build of netcdf 1.11 on SGI/Irix 3.3.1
• From: Bill Hart <hart@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1991 14:49:56 +1000

Well it was a bit of a battle, most of it due to my unfamiliarity with
the pecularities of Irix. My recommendations for a building on a SGI are;

        1) add a variable called SHELL=/bin/sh to the root Makefile and add
SHELL to the MYFLAGS variable. (otherwise make won't interpret shell 
commands).
        2) SYS V install is incompatible, I used the install from my ncarg3.0
source.
        3) No ranlib in SYS V, use $(AR) m instead
        4) I couldn't be bothered wrestling with shared libraries, so
define LIBTYPE nonsharable
        5) If you want a fortran interface just specify OS to be sunos, 
which seems to work.

All tests were passed except for one formatted test of xdr i.e.

root@aqueous {xdr} ? make test
2c2
< bytes: 254 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 
---                         
> bytes: -2 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 
*** XDR fails formatted test ***
The above differences are OK if small
*** XDR passes binary test ***

I tried this with both the supplied SGI xdr library ( -lsun ) and the
distributed xdr stuff with netcdf. Both gave the same result, and isn't
-2 just the 2's compliment of 254 ? Would anybody care to comment on the
seriousness of this?

Well, time to go and tackle X11R5 on the mongrel...

Cheers,

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