Re: 19990311: NetCDF configure buglet: #include <iostream.h>

Hi Dave!

> To: address@hidden
> From: Dave Glowacki <address@hidden>
> Subject: NetCDF configure buglet
> Organization: University of Wisconsin at Madison/SSEC
> Keywords: 199903112330.QAA28830

In the above message, you wrote:

> We've got a machine which has g++ 2.7.2 installed, but is missing <iostream.h>
> and the g++ libraries.
> 
> The NetCDF configure tries to compile a trivial program and succeeds, but
> when it tries to build the actual code in the 'src/cxx' subdirectory,
> it dies.
> 
> The following patch fixed this problem for us, and shouldn't have any
> negative effects elsewhere, since the programs in 'src/cxx' also do a
> '#include <iostream.h>':
> 
> Index: src/aclocal.m4
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /source-control/mcnetcdf/src/aclocal.m4,v
> retrieving revision 1.1.1.1
> diff -u -r1.1.1.1 aclocal.m4
> --- aclocal.m4        1998/07/06 18:06:09     1.1.1.1
> +++ aclocal.m4        1999/03/11 23:24:18
> @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
>                       # compiler with a test program.
>                       # 
>                       AC_MSG_CHECKING(C++ compiler \"$CXX\")
> -                     AC_TRY_COMPILE(, ,
> +                     AC_TRY_COMPILE([#include <iostream.h>], ,
>                           [
>                               AC_MSG_RESULT(works)
>                               break
> 
> 
> ------- End of Forwarded Message

Good idea.  Consider it stolen.  :-)

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