parallel netcdf version info

[Wei-keng Liao]

Hi, Jim,

I just uploaded a few changes to pnetcdf SVN. The most notable is the
Fortran module that contains the declaration of all the APIs and their
arguments. They should be able to detected most of the argument type
mismatch.

This is my first attempt and may contain hidden problems.
Please give it a try and let me know.

As for your suggestion on the library version, I think it is
a good idea. But I am not familiar with configure utility.
I will leave it to Rob Latham.

Wei-keng

On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:32 AM, Jim Edwards wrote:

> I'm working on porting pio from parallel-netcdf 1.0.2 to 1.1.0 -
> the fortran API changed a length variable from type default integer  
> to type mpi_offset_kind.  This caused some errors
> that were a bit difficult to track down.
>
> So now my updated PIO won't work with an earlier version of pnetcdf  
> and I want to build this into
> configure.ac   Does anyone on this list already have this test?    
> The string provided by the  pnetcdf library
> isn't very parser friendly and the string in the svn trunk version  
> is the same as the 1.1.0 release...
>
> const char *
> ncmpi_inq_libvers(void) {
>   return "version = 1.1.0 of 02 November 2009";
> }
>
>
> Can I request a more parser friendly function and perhaps an svn  
> generated version number so that we can distinguish between the
> release version and a repository check out?
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>