Re: 970624: building problem

>To: address@hidden
>From: Arthur Snoke <address@hidden>
>Subject: building problem
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199706241312.HAA26722

Hi Arthur,

Sorry this reply took so long.  Your question was mistakenly sent to me
when I was away from my email for a week.

> I include below a log of my unsuccessful attempt to build netcdf v3.3.1.
> 
> I am using a sun ultrasparc 140 running solaris2.5.1.  I have installed
> gcc but no other compilers.  I do not actually have the libraries installed
> for gc++.
> 
> As you can see, everything appeared to go fine until it went into 
> subdirectory cxx.  It seemed unable to find some include files, like
> generic.h.  Yet they are there is ~/src/ncgen.
 ...
> Making `all' in directory /opt/GMT3.0/netcdf-3.3.1/src/cxx
>  
> gcc -c -O -I../libsrc  -DNDEBUG netcdf.cc
> In file included from netcdf.hh:16,
>                  from netcdf.cc:12:
> ncvalues.hh:13: generic.h: No such file or directory
> ncvalues.hh:14: iostream.h: No such file or directory
> ncvalues.hh:18: strstream.h: No such file or directory

This means g++ is unable to locate some standard include files that
should be installed with any C++ compilation system.  From the above,
your g++ compiler probably won't even be able to compile the following
standard 2-line program:

#include <iostream.h>
main() {cout << "Hello, world\n"; }

You can either find out what's needed to get the g++ compiler to compile
and link the above program first (probably just installing libg++ and
the associated include files in a place where g++ can find them) or just
disable the compilation and testing of the netCDF C++ interface by
setting the environment variable

  CXX=""

before invoking the configure script (after removing config.cache and
running "make clean").  The C and Fortran part of the library will still
work fine without the C++ interface.

--Russ
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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu