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970814: WHOI NetCDF install on HP

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  • Subject: 970814: WHOI NetCDF install on HP
  • Date: Thu, 14 Aug 97 13:15:12 -0600
Roger,

> To: "support" <address@hidden>
> From: "GOLDSMITH, ROGER" <address@hidden>
> Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)
> Keywords: 199708141502.JAA20963

In the above message, you wrote:

> Re: 970814: WHOI NetCDF install on HP 
> 
> Stevei Emmerson,
>    Thanks for the guidance.  Yes, I believe it is a HPUX 10.  The login
> message is   B.10.20 A 9000/780   Sorry, I should have told you that.
> The   setenv CPPFLAGS  -D_HPUX_SOURCE   seems to be most of it.  I had
> to use the Cshell for this and the kill FORTRAN  (FC) as the normal
> assignments not only did not take but produced really weird stuff.  This
> may have something to do with 'sh' being a POSIX shell and not the Bourne
> shell.  At any rate the configure went much better and the make also went
> well for all apparent purposes.  Note the error at the end.  Having the
> utmost confidence in NetCDF, and being impatient, I tested and installed
> anyway.  These also looked successful except for the same 'extern' message
> at the end.  The library and applications look and act successful though.
> 
> VVVVVVVVVV log file from make:
> 
> Making `all' in directory /home/roger/netcdf/netcdf-3.3.1/src/libsrc
> 
>       ar cru libnetcdf.a attr.o  dim.o  error.o  libvers.o  nc.o  ncio.o  
> ncx.o  putget.o  string.o  v1hpg.o  v2i.o  var.o
>       ranlib libnetcdf.a
> 
> Returning to directory /home/roger/netcdf/netcdf-3.3.1/src
> 
> Not making `fortran/all' because no FORTRAN compiler
> 
> Making `all' in directory /home/roger/netcdf/netcdf-3.3.1/src/ncdump
> 
>       c89 -o ncdump -O  ncdump.o vardata.o dumplib.o -L../libsrc -lnetcdf  
> 
> Returning to directory /home/roger/netcdf/netcdf-3.3.1/src
> 
> 
> Making `all' in directory /home/roger/netcdf/netcdf-3.3.1/src/ncgen
> 
>       c89 -o ncgen -O  main.o load.o ncgentab.o escapes.o  getfill.o init.o 
> genlib.o ../libsrc/libnetcdf.a  
> 
> Returning to directory /home/roger/netcdf/netcdf-3.3.1/src
> 
> 
> Making `all' in directory /home/roger/netcdf/netcdf-3.3.1/src/cxx
> 
>       c++ -c -O  -I../libsrc  -D_HPUX_SOURCE netcdf.cc
> In file included from /usr/include/sys/resource.h:21,
>                  from 
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.10/2.7.2.1/include/sys/wait.h:86,
>                  from 
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.10/2.7.2.1/include/stdlib.h:231,
>                  from netcdf.cc:11:
> /usr/include/sys/time.h:337: `extern' can only be specified for objects and 
> functions
> *** Error exit code 1

Hmm...  If your system is HP-UX 10.20, then you might have to reinstall
the GNU C++ compiler because the above lines indicate that it thinks
your system is HP-UX 10.10.  The g++ documentation says that it might
need to reinstalled when the operating system is upgraded.

--------
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>