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Re: compiling netcdf3.4 using MIPS7.2.1

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  • Subject: Re: compiling netcdf3.4 using MIPS7.2.1
  • Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 09:54:00 -0700
>Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 15:40:29 +1000
>From: Keyu Liu <address@hidden>
>Organization:  CSIRO Petroleum
>To: Russ Rew <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: compiling netcdf3.4 on SGI O2 R-5000 under IRIX6.5 using MIPS 
>7.2.1

Keyu,

> Subject: compiling netcdf3.4 on SGI O2 R-5000 under IRIX6.5 using MIPS 7.2.1
 ...
> Thanks very much for your help.  When I reran the 'configure' as you
> suggested, the output is different from yours. There seems "no ANSI
> head files" on my system, nor "size_t", "ssize_t", "ptrdiff_t", and
> the sizes for "short", "long", "int" and "float" are all zero (see
> below). My machine also does not recognise the command 'export'. Is
> this something to do my system or compilers. Do you have any idea to
> get around the problem?

The "export" command is the way to set environment variables using the
standard shells sh, bsh, ksh, or bash.  If you are using csh, tcsh, or
some similar shell based on the C-shell, environment variables are set
using a different syntax.  For an explanation of how to set
environment variables in the various shells, see the new netCDF
INSTALL file with the section "SETTING ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES",
available from 

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/INSTALL

Looking at the difference between your configure output and ours on a
similar platform, either of two problems might cause the differences:

 - your compilers and header files are not properly installed, since
   the ANSI header files defining "size_t" and the other typedefs
   should be available with any standard C compiler (by including
   <stddefs.h>, for example); or
 - you have defined the environment variable "CPP" to be "/lib/cpp".

I suspect the latter problem.  To test this, please invoke

  echo $CPP

and see if the output is "/lib/cpp".  If this is the problem, please
unset the CPP environment variable, invoke "make distclean", remove
the "config.cache" file, and rerun the "configure" script.  The output
should indicate that "size_t" and the other typedefs are now defined
and that the system has ANSI C header files.  If this looks OK, then
just proceed with "make all", "make test", etc.

Also, please send future netCDF support questions to

  address@hidden

That way they'll get assigned to someone who can answer them even if I
happen to be on vacation or away from my email.  Thanks.

--Russ

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