961119: netCDF build on Solaris 2.3

Dear Celeste Saulo,

> From: address@hidden (A. Celeste Saulo)
> Subject: some problems with Netcdf
> Organization: ?
> Keywords: 199611181647.AA18739 netCDF

In the above message you wrote:

>  Hello! My name is Celeste Saulo and I'm interested in installing NETCDF on
>  attempts. That's why I'm asking you for some help!.
>  On this file, I enclose the following information:
>  i) output from 'uname -a' = SunOS felipe 5.3 Generic sun4m sparc
>  ii) output form 'env' is as follows:
> 
> _=/usr/bin/env
> MANPATH=/opt/SUNWspro/man:/usr/share/man:/n/man:
> HZ=100
> nom=fo
> PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:.:/usr/openwin/bin:/usr/bin::/n/bin:/usr/openwin/bin::/etc:/home/fortran/bin:/n/bin:/usr/ucb:/etc:.
> CDPATH=.:~
> LM_LICENSE_FILE=/opt/SUNWspro/SunTech_License/license.dat
> LOGNAME=fortran
> MAIL=/usr/spool/mail/fortran
> TERMCAP=vt102|vt-102:do=^J:co#80:li#24:cl=50\E[;H\E[2J:le=^H:bs:cm=5\E[%i%d;%dH:nd=2\E[C:up=2\E[A:ce=3\E[K:cd=50\E[J:so=2\E[7m:se=2\E[m:us=2\E[4m:ue=2\E[m:md=2\E[1m:mr=2\E[7m:mb=2\E[5m:me=2\E[m:is=\E[1;24r\E[24;1H:rs=\E>\E[?3l\E[?4l\E[?5l\E[?7h\E[?8h:ks=\E[?1h\E=:ke=\E[?1l\E>:ku=\EOA:kd=\EOB:kr=\EOC:kl=\EOD:kb=^H:ho=\E[H:k1=\EOP:k2=\EOQ:k3=\EOR:k4=\EOS:pt:sr=5\EM:vt#3:sc=\E7:rc=\E8:cs=\E[%i%d;%dr:vs=\E[?7l:ve=\E[?7h:
> SHELL=/bin/ksh
> HOME=/home/fortran
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/lib:
> TERM=vt-102
> PWD=/nuevo/netcdf/netcdf-2.4.3/src
> TZ=Argentina
> ENV=/home/fortran/.kshrc
> sid=FE
> 
>  iii) I haven't modified the file CUSTOMIZE, though I need the following 
> FFLAGS:
>   -Bstatic
>  Instead, I've preferred to write the command:
>  FFLAGS=-Bstatic
>  before runing the configure (under ksh)
>  However, I've also tried the other shell (csh), so I wrote
>  setenv FFLAGS -Bstatic
>  I've also used the configure with --prefix=/nuevo/netcdf
>  and previously enabled read,write and execute permissions in this directory.
> 
> iv) the output from the configure script is as follows:
> 
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for catman... catman
> checking for fill-value usage... new usage
> checking the installation prefix... /nuevo/netcdf
> checking the installation exec-prefix... /nuevo/netcdf
> checking for cc... cc
> checking type of operating system... sunos5
> checking for ranlib... :
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
> checking the C preprocessor... works
> checking for f77... f77
> checking for CC... no
> checking for CC... no
> checking for cxx... no
> checking for c++... no
> checking for g++... no
> checking for gcc... no
> checking for yacc... yacc
> checking for neqn... neqn
> checking for tbl... tbl
> checking for ar... ar
> checking for makeinfo... no
> checking for tar flags... -chof
> checking for dependency generation mechanism... cc -xM
> checking for C position-independent-code compile-option... 
> checking whether cross-compiling... yes
> checking size of int... 
> 
> and it finishes with the following message:
> configure:  error: can not run test program while cross compiling
> 
>  the config.log file is the following:
>  
> This file contains any messages produced by compilers while
> running configure, to aid debugging if configure makes a mistake.
>  
> configure:1156: cc -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:1197: cc -E  conftest.c >/dev/null 2>conftest.out
> configure:1684: cc -c -O -Kpic  conftest.c 1>&5
> /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
> configure:1712: cc -o conftest -O   conftest.c  1>&5
> /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed
> 
>  v) after all this, of course I couldn't 'make all', because it says that
>  all is an impossible target.
> 
> 
>   Thank you very much for your attention.
>   Sincerelly yours,
>   Celeste Saulo

It appears that you don't have a C compiler (or at least one that works)!
I conclude this from the following lines in the file `config.log':

    configure:1684: cc -c -O -Kpic  conftest.c 1>&5
    /usr/ucb/cc:  language optional software package not installed

Given your PATH above, I'm puzzled as to why the /usr/ucb/cc compiler
was chosen.  Our SunOS 5.3 system has a C compiler in /opt/SUNWspro/bin.
Does yours?  Can you invoke it?  Does it successfully compile a test
file?

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Steve Emmerson   <address@hidden>