Re: 970311: Netcdf 3.3a on a Dec Alpha Running Linux

>
> Hi,
>
>       I have a Dec Alpha running the linux 2.0.27 kernel,
> gcc version 2.7.2.1, glibc 0.961212-3.
>
>       The compile goes ok (lots of warnings about redefinition
> of ulong, ushort, uint, time_t, fd_set, but that's a linux include
> problem.)  The make test fails because the
>
> #if !defined(__alpha) && !defined(__AIX) && !defined(uchar)
> typedef unsigned char uchar;
> #endif
>
> in nctest/tests.h doesn't get done, but it needs to.  The
> processor symbol __linux__ is set to one if you want to change
> the overly inclusive !defined(__alpha) hunk somehow.  (It
> might be better to use the OS symbol for OSF1 or Win NT on the
> alpha instead of the __alpha symbol.)

The configure script figures this out for libsrc, but
we didn't want to include ../libsrc/ncconfig.h into this directory,
or have 'configure' messing around in there.

Seems like the quick fix would be to change "__alpha" to
"__osf__". Let me know if that solves your problem and I will
change things here.

> Any release plans for the 3.3 c++ interface?

If you can cobble the 2.4.x cxx/Makefile to work with
netcdf-3, the 2.4.x cxx sources can be patched to compile
with netcdf-3.  The patches are available from the
support archive as
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/glimpse/netcdf/2200

> Thanks,
>
>       Dan Schmitt
>
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-glenn