pnetcdf tests

[Jianwei Li]

Hi Jim,

You are right that nc_test/nf_test are designed for single process test.
There are two steps to run nc_test (nf_test is similar):
 	(1) create test.nc by 	"<mpirun -np 1> ./nc_test -c"
 	(2) run the test by 	"<mpirun -np 1> ./nc_test -v"
I will make sure that these lines of documentation DO appear in README
in next release!

As to the FORTRAN style comments, I'm sure I addressed that issue long
ago explicitly for AIX platform. It probably got reverted accidentally
in later releases. We'll fix that again for sure!

Thanks,
Jianwei

On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, Jim Edwards wrote:

> Hi, I have just installed parallel-netcdf-1.0.0-pre2 on two platforms
> 1. An AIX 5.1 system with OBJECT_MODE=64
> 2. A BGL platform (basically an ppc linux machine)
>
> Both platforms use IBM's xlc/xlf compilers.  I couldn't find any
> documentation about the tests, but after a little experimenting I
> decided that they should be run from just one processor - is that
> correct?  On both platforms nc_test passes everything but nf_test
> fails a large number of tests with unexpected results.  Before I could
> compile the fortran tests I had to modify the .inc files and add ! in
> front of c-style comments.
>
> Any ideas on why i get all the unexpected results?
>
> -- 
> Jim Edwards
> IBM Applications Analyst
> National Centers for Atmospheric Research
> Boulder CO 80305     303-497-1842
>