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960919: Installation problem: Linux with MSDOS option

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  • Subject: 960919: Installation problem: Linux with MSDOS option
  • Date: Thu, 19 Sep 96 16:28:24 -0600
Graeme,

> To: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden (Graeme Potter)
> Subject: netCDF and Linux
> Organization: .

In the above message you wrote:

> I am having trouble installing netCDF on my system which is running Linux
> using the umsdos (under MSDOS) option.
> 
> As I am using bash I used :- 
> 
> CC=gcc CPPFLAGS= ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> 
> then
> 
> make all > log 2>&1 &
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> making `all' in directory /temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src/port
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src/port'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src/port'
> 
> returning to directory /temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src
> 
> 
> making `all' in directory /temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src/xdr
> 
> make[1]: Entering directory `/temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src/xdr'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src/xdr'
> gcc -c -fpic -O -I/usr/include/rpc -DUD_NO_MALLOC_DECL  xdr.c
> In file included from /usr/include/stdlib.h:35,
>                  from xdr.c:17:
> /usr/include/errno.h:27: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from types.h:42,
>                  from xdr.c:20:
> /usr/include/sys/types.h:4: linux/types.h: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [xdr.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src/xdr'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/temp/netcdf-2.4.3/src/xdr'
> make: *** [xdr/all] Error 127
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> It would appear to me that make is trying to find files in a directory
> called "linux" which is the msdos pseudo root for the Linux umsdos option
> and isn't visable from within Linux? Perhaps I am doing something stupid or
> misunderstanding the text but anyway I can't get it to work.
> 
> Any suggestions that you could make would be most welcome.

Though I haven't built the netCDF package on a Linux system and don't
routinely use the gcc(1) compiler, I have built the package on many
different systems.  It appears to me that your gcc(1) installation is
incorrect in some way: system header files are attempting to include
linux-specific headers files which the compiler can't find.  For
example, the system header file `/usr/include/stdlib.h' appears to be
trying to include the header file `linux/errno.h'.  Does it?

I suggest the following:

    1.  Verify that the system header files (in `/usr/include') are
        attempting to include header files in a `linux/' subdirectory.

    2.  If true, then attempt to locate the `linux/' subdirectory (is it
        under `/usr/include/'?).

    3.  Once you know where that directory is, try specifying it in the
        value of the CPPFLAGS variable before running the `configure'
        script.  For example, say the the directory
        `/usr/local/gcc/linux' exists and contains the header files
        `errno.h' and `types.h', then re-invoke the `configure' script
        in the following way:

            $ CC=gcc CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/gcc ./configure --prefix=/usr/local

    4.  Then try a re-make(1).

Please let me know if this helps.

--------
Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>