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Re: 980626: NetCDF Perl problem

Aidan,

>Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 17:58:32 +1000
>From: address@hidden (Aidan Heerdegen)
>Organization: .
>To: address@hidden
>Subject: Re: 980626: NetCDF Perl problem
>Keywords: 199806260542.XAA26523

In the above message, you wrote:

> > G'day Aidan,
> 
> Excellent use of the vernacular .. 

Fair dinkum?  Thanks.

> No, and sorry for not including that before .. I saw your note about 
> including this in the INSTALL file, you must get really pissed off
> with people who don't read all the documentation .. 

Nah.  Happens all the time.

> > Could you, perhaps, be obtaining an old version of the
> > netCDF library?
> 
> The problem is, and another apology, due to a crappy build of the netcdf
> library by moi. My sysadmin fellow installed it system-wide, and when I
> used his version it worked fine. Don't know why, as I didn't get any
> compile errors when I originally built netcdf.

It's possible that your build didn't create the "position independent 
code" that necessary for shared libraries (via the "-Kpic" option).
This would render the netCDF stuff invisible.

I'm glad your problem worked itself out.

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Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>