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Re: 19990219: netcdf: Installation problems

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  • Subject: Re: 19990219: netcdf: Installation problems
  • Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:52:18 -0700
>To: address@hidden
>From: Darren Alman <address@hidden>
>Subject: netcdf: Installation problems
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199902192151.OAA20044

Hi Darren,

> A.    uname -a
>       =>  SunOS aries.ne.uiuc.edu 5.6 Generic_105181-03 sun4u sparc 
> SUNW,Ultra-5_10
>       
> B.    3.4
> 
> C.    CC:     /usr/ucb/cc

Make sure you don't try to build netCDF on a SunOS system using the
ancient /usr/ucb/cc compiler, which doesn't understand standard C.
The netCDF source distribution requires a standard C compiler to
build.  Although the above presumable shows where "cc" is coming from,
presumably you have set the CC environment variable to "c89" and are
actually using that compiler, according to the later output you
provided below.

>       gcc:    /opt/GCC281/bin/gcc
>       f77     /opt/SUNWspro/bin/f77
>       fpp:    /opt/SUNWspro/bin/fpp
>       
> D.    see attachments
> 
> E.    see attachments
 ...
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for m4... no
> checking for gm4... no
> checking for xlc... no
> checking for c89... c89
> checking C compiler... works
> checking how to make dependencies... cc -xM
> checking for CC... CC
> checking C++ compiler "CC"... works
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... c89 -E
> checking for f77... f77
> checking for Fortran .F compiler... 
> checking if Fortran compiler handles *.F files... yes
> checking for C-equivalent to Fortran routine "SUB"... configure: nm: not found

The above error indicates you don't have "/usr/ccs/bin/" or
"/usr/xpg4/bin" in your PATH, because the "nm" utility, as well as
"make", "ld", "size", and other program development tools are found in
one of those directories (they used to be in /usr/bin/ before Unix
SVR4).  If neither /usr/ccs/bin/ nor /usr/xpg4/bin/ exists on your
system, it has not been configured for program development, so you
will have to either 

 - install a substitute set of FSF/GNU tools;
 - get your system properly configured for compiling programs by
   installing the necessary Sun package; or
 - install the binary netCDF distribution for SunOS 5.6/Sparc
   platforms from

     ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/sunos_5.6-sparc/netcdf-3.4.tar.Z

If /usr/ccs/bin/ exists, just prepend it to your PATH environment
variable before running the configure script.  Make sure you remove
the config.cache file first, if the previous configure run created it.
For more details of environment variable settings known to work on
SunOS 5.6 (as well as instructions for setting environment variables
under different shells), see the latest netCDF INSTALL file at

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

--Russ

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