Re: 950830: netCDF build failure on Solaris 2.4 using gcc 2.7.0

Don,

> I started over from tar, I think I followed all the instructions, and
> managed to get rid of all the flags except the -DNO_STDARG, which seems to
> cause the problem.  Enclosed is my config.status.  Thanks again. 

OK, that verifies that configure thinks the -DNO_STDARG flag is needed, but
the gcc on our Solaris 2.4 systems doesn't need this flag.  The flag says
that a program with

   #include <stdarg.h>

that tries to use facilities for variadic functions defined in the stdarg.h
header file either gets a compiler error or generates some unexpected output
when run.  To further diagnose the problem, we'll need to see the output
from compiling and running (if you get that far) the following 10-line
program with gcc:

#include <stdarg.h>
main() { exit(0); } 
t() { ;}
int foo(int bar, ...) {
    va_list     alist;
    va_start(alist, bar);
    bar = (int)va_arg(alist, int);
    va_end(alist);
    return bar;
 }

Just store the above program in a file, say "x.c", then run the following
two commands to generate an executable "x" and to run it:

  gcc -o x x.c
  ./x

These commands produce no output on our system (and should produce no
output, if gcc is installed properly).  If you get any output at all, please
send it to us.

Thanks.

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Russ Rew                                           UCAR Unidata Program
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