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Charlie,
> >To: address@hidden (netCDF Support)
> >From: address@hidden (Charlie Zender)
> >Organization: CGD/NCAR/UCAR
> >Keywords: 199506082253.AA21549
In the above message you wrote:
> i'm trying to get netcdf-perl-1.0 up and running but it's
> failing on the test suite. i installed a private copy of
> perl5.001 + the four patches locally and modified the
> CUSTOMIZE file accordingly. i could have done something
> wrong with the patch installation for perl, because i've never
> used patch before, but everything went smoothly and perl
> passed it's test suite. i'm sure i used the same C compiler, gcc.
> please let me know what you think my error might have been.
> here's the os version, the output from ./configure,
> the output from make, and the error message from the test suite:
...
> making `test' in directory /cgd/data2/zender/netcdf-perl-1.0/src/perl
>
> /data/zender/bin/SUNMP/perl -I/cgd/data2/zender/netcdf-perl-1.0/src/perl/blib
> -I/cgd/data2/zender/netcdf-perl-1.0/src/perl/blib
> -I/data/zender/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris -I/data/zender/lib/perl5 test.pl
> Creating netCDF file...........................ok
> Setting fill mode..............................ok
> Defining fixed dimensions......................ok
> Defining fixed variables.......................ok
> Writing attributes.............................ok
> Defining record dimension......................ok
> Defining record variables......................ok
> Ending definition..............................ok
> Writing fixed variable values..................ok
> Synchronizing netCDF I/O.......................ok
> Writing record values..........................perl/netCDF record variable
> size mismatch at test.pl line 183.
> *** Error code 255
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test'
> Current working directory /cgd/data2/zender/netcdf-perl-1.0/src/perl
...
I've discovered the problem. Please see the netCDFPerl Web page
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf-perl
under "KNOWN PROBLEMS".
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Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>