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Re: Installing netcdf

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  • Subject: Re: Installing netcdf
  • Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 08:30:48 -0700
>To: address@hidden
>From: "Dr. Mehdi Rezapour" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Installing netcdf
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 200002070625.XAA20368

Hi Mehdi,

> Thank you very much for your prompt reply. Finally I removed a shell script
> cc file in directory /usr/ucb and then I installed netcdf-3.4 using gcc 
> version
> 2.7.2.2. It works but in directory ../src/cxx  "make" fail and give this error
> ---
> In file included from netcdf.hh:16,
>                  from necdf.cc:12:
> ncvalues.hh:13: iostream.h: No such file or directory
> ncvalues.hh:17: strstream.h: No such file or directory
> *** Error code 1
> make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `netcdf.o'
 ...
> I tried to exclude "iostream.h" and "strstream.h" in files ncvalueshh and 
> etc. 
> But again didn't work and give different massages. 

Your C++ compilation environment doesn't appear to have the standard
header-files "iostream.h" and "strstream.h".  This means that your C++
compilation environment can't be used to compile the C++ netCDF
interface.

You have two choices:

 1.  Don't build the netCDF C++ interface, since it's not needed
     unless you actually have C++ programs that call it.  I don't
     believe GMT makes any use of the C++ interface.  

     To build netCDF without the C++ interface requires re-executing
     steps 2 through 9 near the end of the INSTALL file.  At step 5 --
     when defining environment variables -- set the environment
     variable CXX to the empty string (i.e.  "") to tell the
     "configure" script that you don't want the C++ interface.

 2.  Repair your C++ compilation environment (e.g. by reinstalling
     the GNU C compiler), so that at least the following simple C++
     program compiles and runs correctly:

 #include <iostream.h>
 int main() {
     cout << "Hello\n";
     return 0;
 }

--Russ

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