960517: NetCDF under MachTen unix

Hi Craig,

Since the problem seems to be with the configure script, Russ has given
it to me.

>Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 14:26:47 -0400 
>From: "Dr. Craig A. Mattocks" <address@hidden>
>Organization: NOAA/AOML
>To: Russ Rew <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 960515: NetCDF under MachTen unix 
>Keywords: 199605151821.AA27851

In the above message you wrote:

> conftest: Exec format error. Wrong Architecture.
> 

Whoa!  Why would the executable have the wrong architecture?  I'll assume
that it's due to the failure to link correctly mentioned below.

> > See if there are any useful messages at the end of "config.log".
> 
> configure:1911: gcc -o conftest -O   conftest.c  1>&5
> conftest.c(.text+a4): undefined reference to `.xdr_long'
> 
> configure:2120: gcc -o conftest -O   conftest.c  -lrpc 1>&5
> ldr error relocating, symbol xdr_float is undefined
> ldr error relocating, symbol xdr_double is undefined
> 

So, your RPC library doesn't contain the XDR functions?  That's weird.
Look around.  Can you find them?  Maybe there's a `libxdr.a' on your
system.

The file conftest.c (which has code for testing the system's XDR
library) should still be lying around.  See if you can *manually* build
and execute it.

> (MachTen unix should resemble Sun or NeXT BSD flavors.)

It doesn't (at least sufficiently well).  :-(

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>