<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Wei-Keng:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Doing:</div><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">unsetenv PNETCDF_VERBOSE_DEBUG_MODE<br class="">./large_files</blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">using the same debug version as you suggested worked. Then, I tried to recompile pnetcdf from scratch without —enable-debug and I got the same error as before when running ./large_files or:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">*** Testing large files, slowly.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">*** Creating large file ./large_files.nc...line 264 of ../.././../pnetcdf-1.11.2/test/largefile/large_files.c: NetCDF: Index exceeds dimension bound</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Courier; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class="">FAIL large_files (exit status: 1)</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I really do not understand this at all.</div><div class="">Laura</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 5, 2019, at 9:00 AM, Wei-keng Liao <<a href="mailto:wkliao@eecs.northwestern.edu" class="">wkliao@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">The output file, large_files.out, shows "*** Tests successful!”<br class="">at the end, which means the test is passed.<br class=""><br class="">The error message at line 455 of ncmpio_var.c is expected.<br class="">It searches and checks whether a variable name was previous used.<br class="">Since you are creating a new variable, the search for existing<br class="">name should fail. It is an internal check and can be safely ignored.<br class=""><br class="">Using the debug version of PnetCDF, can you try running this test<br class="">program without setting the environment variable PNETCDF_VERBOSE_DEBUG_MODE?<br class="">I.e.<br class=""><br class="">unsetenv PNETCDF_VERBOSE_DEBUG_MODE<br class="">./large_files<br class=""><br class="">If it passed, I am puzzled and believe the non-debug build of PnetCDF<br class="">should work. I suggest you to build PnetCDF using your original settings,<br class="">i.e. no '--enable-debug’ from scratch and run ‘make -s check’ again.<br class=""><br class="">FYI. version 1.12.0 was released a few days ago. Maybe you can<br class="">give it a try, but note 1.12.0 does not change anything related to<br class="">the test program large_files.c.<br class=""><br class="">Wei-keng<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 5, 2019, at 8:46 AM, Laura Fowler <<a href="mailto:ldfowler58@icloud.com" class="">ldfowler58@icloud.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Wei-Keng:<br class=""><br class="">Many thanks for replying so quickly to my e-mail. I really appreciate it as I have a few deadlines coming up this month. I rebuilt pnetcdf using the debug mode from scratch, following your suggestions. I am attaching to the config.log file and the output from running large_files. I do see an error in the output large_files.out (line 455).<br class=""><br class="">Regard,<br class="">Laura<br class=""><br class=""><large_files.out><config.log><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 4, 2019, at 11:08 AM, Wei-keng Liao <<a href="mailto:wkliao@eecs.northwestern.edu" class="">wkliao@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi Laura<br class=""><br class="">I tried the failed test program ‘large_files’ on a Mac, but<br class="">could not reproduce the error you encountered.<br class=""><br class="">In order to get more information about the error, could you<br class="">rebuild PnetCDF in debug mode, by adding the configure<br class="">option '--enable-debug’. For example,<br class=""><br class="">make -s distclean<br class="">./../pnetcdf-1.11.2/configure \<br class="">--prefix=/Users/LauraLaptop/InstalledSoftwares/pnetcdf-1.11.2.gfortran-8.3 \<br class="">--enable-shared --enable-large-file-test --enable-debug<br class="">make -s -j4<br class="">cd test/largefile<br class="">make large_files<br class=""><br class="">setenv PNETCDF_VERBOSE_DEBUG_MODE 1<br class="">./large_files<br class=""><br class="">This should print the location of the error.<br class="">Please send me the output. Thanks.<br class=""><br class="">Wei-keng<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Oct 3, 2019, at 5:38 PM, Laura Fowler via parallel-netcdf <<a href="mailto:parallel-netcdf@lists.mcs.anl.gov" class="">parallel-netcdf@lists.mcs.anl.gov</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hello:<br class=""><br class="">I would like to compile pnetcdf-1.11.2 on my MacBook Pro (macOS Mojave 10.14.6) with the following options:<br class=""><br class="">setenv CC mpicc<br class="">setenv CXX mpic++<br class="">setenv F77 mpif77<br class="">setenv FC mpif90<br class=""><br class="">From my “install” directory, I used the following configure options:<br class="">./../pnetcdf-1.11.2/configure --prefix=/Users/LauraLaptop/InstalledSoftwares/pnetcdf-1.11.2.gfortran-8.3 --enable-shared --enable-large-file-test<br class=""><br class="">(see attached config.log).<br class=""><br class=""><config.log><br class=""><br class="">I got the following error message with “make check”:<br class=""><br class="">/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make check-TESTS<br class="">FAIL: large_files<br class="">PASS: large_var<br class="">PASS: large_dims_vars_attrs<br class="">PASS: high_dim_var<br class="">PASS: tst_cdf5_begin<br class="">PASS: large_coalesce<br class="">PASS: bigrecords<br class="">PASS: tst_flarge<br class="">============================================================================<br class="">Testsuite summary for PnetCDF 1.11.2<br class="">============================================================================<br class=""># TOTAL: 8<br class=""># PASS: 7<br class=""># SKIP: 0<br class=""># XFAIL: 0<br class=""># FAIL: 1<br class=""># XPASS: 0<br class=""># ERROR: 0<br class="">============================================================================<br class="">See test/largefile/test-suite.log<br class="">Please report to <a href="mailto:parallel-netcdf@mcs.anl.gov" class="">parallel-netcdf@mcs.anl.gov</a><br class="">============================================================================<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">(see attached test-suite.log).<br class=""><br class=""><test-suite.log><br class=""><br class="">I would really appreciate if you were able to help solve this issue. Thank you.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">Laura Fowler<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>