950619: trouble building netcdfperl

Tom,

> Subject: trouble building netcdfperl
> To:       address@hidden
> From: sparc2!baaqmd (Tom Umeda)
> Organization: Bay Area Air Quality Management District
> Keywords: 199506190659.AA23494

In the above message you wrote:

> I am having trouble installing netcdfperl.
> Here is `configure', `uname -a', `make':
> 
> sparc2:/home/baaqmd/new/src/netcdf-perl-1.0.1/src[49] configure
> loading cache ./config.cache
> checking for perl... (cached) perl
> checking for perl manual page directory... /usr/local/man
> checking for cc... (cached) cc
> configure: warning: reading configuration customizations
> checking for neqn... (cached) neqn
> checking for tbl... (cached) tbl
> checking type of operating system... sunos5
> checking for tar flags... -chof
> checking for netCDF header-file... -I/usr/local/man/../include
> checking for netCDF library... -L/usr/local/man/../lib -lnetcdf
> checking for package version... 1.0
> creating ./config.status
> creating Makefile
> creating perl/Makefile.PL
> creating port/Makefile
> creating port/master.mk
> expanding `include's in file `Makefile'
> expanding `include's in file `perl/Makefile.PL'
> expanding `include's in file `port/Makefile'
> expanding `include's in file `port/master.mk'
> 
> sparc2:/home/baaqmd/new/src/netcdf-perl-1.0.1/src[50] uname -a
> SunOS sparc2 5.4 Generic_101945-13 sun4m sparc
> 
> sparc2:/home/baaqmd/new/src/netcdf-perl-1.0.1/src[51] make
> cd perl && perl Makefile.PL
> Writing Makefile for NetCDF
> 
> making `all' in directory /home/baaqmd/new/src/netcdf-perl-1.0.1/src/perl
> 
> cc -c  -O -K pic -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/CORE  
> -I/usr/local/man/../include NetCDF.c
> "NetCDF.c", line 33: syntax error before or at: nclong
> "NetCDF.c", line 33: cannot recover from previous errors
> cc: acomp failed for NetCDF.c
> *** Error code 2
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `NetCDF.o'
> Current working directory /home/baaqmd/new/src/netcdf-perl-1.0.1/src/perl
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `perl/all'
> Current working directory /home/baaqmd/new/src/netcdf-perl-1.0.1/src
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `decision'
> Current working directory /home/baaqmd/new/src/netcdf-perl-1.0.1/src
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all'

Hmmm...  I don't see this problem on our SunOS 5.4 system (I just
rebuilt the package to make sure).

A few questions:

    1.  What version of netCDFPerl do you have (`cat VERSION`)?  The
        latest is 1.0.1.

    2.  Does the file /usr/local/include/netcdf.h exist?  And

    3.  What version of the netCDF library do you have (`grep Id: 
        /usr/local/include/netcdf.h`)?

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>