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Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Joaquim,
>
>> > Does the file that is being opened exist?
>>
>> Good guess.
>> No the file does not exist but note that we are talking of test
>> program -- "nc_test" -- that ships with the with netcdf package.
>> The line in question has
>>
>> err =3D nc_open("nc_test.o", NC_NOWRITE, &ncid);/* should fail */
>>
>> If I create a dummy "nc_test.o" file than the tests pass.
>
> Yes, this is a non-portable test that should be eliminated or changed.
> To trigger the error, the test needed the name of a non-netCDF file, and
> used "nc_test.o" because it existed in the same directory on the Unix
> systems on which the test was developed. I suspect there is no file
> that we can assume will exist on all platforms to use in this test, so
> the test should either create such a file or we should eliminate the
> test. It's not a particularly important test, so to get past it you
> could just comment it out.
>
> I'll fix it soon:
>
> https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/jira/browse/NCF-122
>
> Thanks for reporting this.
>
> --Russ
Ha ha! I beat you to it! Mine is NCF-121! ;-)
Ed
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