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Hugh, >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:30:49 -0500 >From: Hugh Ellis <address@hidden> >Organization: Johns Hopkins University >To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden> >Subject: Re: 20010314: Solaris 2.6 large-file support >Keywords: 200103141703.f2EH3KL02469 The above message contained the following: > Many thanks. Here's the info:<br> > <br> > $ uname -a<br> > <b>SunOS airsun 5.6 Generic_105181-15 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60<br> I regret to inform you that the netCDF package cannot be built for large file system support on a SunOS 5.6 system. This is because the netCDF code uses the "off_t" type in a way that conforms with the UNIX standard but that is incompatible with the non-conforming implementation of that type under SunOS 5.6. To see this for yourself, do the following 1. Go to the top-level source directory of the netCDF package. 2. Execute the command "make distclean". 3. Remove file "make.cache" if it exists. 4. Set the following environment variables to the indicated values: export CC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/c89 export CPPFLAGS=-DNDEBUG export CFLAGS="-O `getconf LFS_CFLAGS`" export FC=/opt/SUNWspro/bin/f77 export FFLAGS="-O -w" export F90= export CXX= export LDFLAGS=`getconf LFS_LDFLAGS` export LIBS=`getconf LFS_LIBS` NOTE: The above assumes a standard shell. csh-derived shells use a different syntax. 5. Execute the "configure" script. 6. Execute the command "make". It will quickly fail with the following error: ... Making `all' in directory /tmp/netcdf-3.5.0/src/libsrc ... /opt/SUNWspro/bin/c89 -c -O -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I. -DNDEBUG nc.c "nc.c", line 209: warning: {}-enclosed initializer required "nc.c", line 209: struct/union-valued initializer required "nc.c", line 225: operands have incompatible types: union {double _d, array[2] of long _l} "<" unsigned int ... Regards, Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>