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possible problems compiling netcdf-3.3 on HP machine

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  • Subject: possible problems compiling netcdf-3.3 on HP machine
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 17:09:31 -0600
> To: address@hidden
> From: address@hidden (Mary Haley)
> Subject: possible problems compiling netcdf-3.3 on HP machine
> Keywords: 199705222142.PAA27010
>
> Hi there,
>
> I downloaded the netcdf-3.3 source today and successfully built it
> on a few platforms (Sun, Cray, DEC Alpha). One thing I noticed is that
> I have to remove the config.cache file before I can run ./configure to
> set it up for a different platform.
>
> Anyway, when I run ./configure on an HP 700 series machine running
> HPUX 10.01 and try to compile netCDF, I get the following error
> message:
>
>
> savage[54] uname -a
> HP-UX savage B.10.01 A 9000/720 2015974785 two-user license
> savage[55] ./configure --prefix=/fs/scd/home1/ncargd/dev/HP9k720_HPUX_B_10_01
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for m4... m4
> checking for xlc... no
> checking for c89... c89
> checking C compiler... works
> checking for how to make dependencies... false
> checking for CC... CC
> checking C++ compiler "CC"... works
> checking for fort77... fort77
> checking for math library
> ...
> creating ./config.status
> creating macros.make
> creating libsrc/ncconfig.h
> libsrc/ncconfig.h is unchanged
> creating fortran/netcdf-cpp.inc
> fortran/netcdf-cpp.inc is unchanged
> savage[56] make all install
>
> Making `all' in directory
/auto/fs/scd/home1/ncargd/test/local/src/netcdf-3.3/src/libsrc
>
>         c89 -c -O -I.  -DNDEBUG attr.c
> cpp: "stdsyms.h", line 39: warning 2001: Redefinition of macro
_INCLUDE_POSIX_SOURCE.
> cc: "/usr/include/stddef.h", line 26: error 1642: Duplicate type specifier
"int": ignored.
> cc: "/usr/include/stddef.h", line 26: warning 554: Declarator is missing.
> *** Error exit code 1
>
> Stop.
> *** Error exit code 1
>
> Do you know what the problem might  be?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mary
> address@hidden
> x1254

Try the following:
        1) setenv CC "cc -Aa -D_HPUX_SOURCE"
        2) remove config.cache
        3) running configure again
        4) make ....

Please let us know how it goes, we aren't up to HPUX 10 here, yet.

-glenn