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Re: problems with building NetCDF

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  • Subject: Re: problems with building NetCDF
  • Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 19:41:55 -0600
>To: address@hidden
>From: Hans Stalpers <address@hidden>
>Subject: problems with building NetCDF
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200210170916.g9H9GE115657

Hi Hans,

First, my apologies for taking so long to reply to your question.  It
was sent when I was out of town, and I missed seeing it when I finally
got back to look at my email.

>   As mentioned I have problems with building the NetCDF
>   Below you will find settings and the logs.
> 
>   Thank you for solving my problem.
> 
> HP-UX denali B.11.11 U 9000/800 560710598 unlimited-user license
> 
> 3.5.1-beta3
> 
> 
> CC=/usr/ccs/bin/cc

On HP-UX, I don't think /usr/ccs/bin/cc is a standard C compiler.
Could you use gcc or a different C compiler that compiles standard C
declarations such as "signed char c;" correctly?

> lrwxr-xr-x   1 root       sys             12 Jun 22  2001 /usr/ccs/bin/cc -> 
> ./cc_bundled
> FC=/opt/fortran/bin/fort77
> -r-xr-xr-x   2 bin        bin         233472 May 23  1996 
> /opt/fortran/bin/fort77
> CFLAGS=-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
> FFLAGS=-w
> FLIBS=-lU77
> 
> ====>  macros.make is NOT build
> 
> creating cache ./config.cache
> checking for top-level source-directory
> /dump/netcdf-3.5.1-beta3/src
> checking for m4 preprocessor
> checking for m4... m4
> checking m4 flags... -B10000
> checking C compiler "/usr/ccs/bin/cc"... works
> checking how to make dependencies... false
> checking for CC... no
> checking for cxx... no
> checking for c++... no
> checking for g++... no
> checking for gcc... no
> configure: warning: Could not find working C++ compiler
> configure: warning: Setting CXX to the empty string
> configure: warning: The C++ interface will not be built
> checking how to run the C preprocessor... /usr/ccs/bin/cc -E
> checking user-defined Fortran-77 compiler "/opt/fortran/bin/fort77"... works
> checking for Fortran .F compiler... 
> checking if Fortran-77 compiler handles *.F files... yes
> checking "/opt/fortran/bin/fort77" as Fortran-90 compiler... failed to build 
> test program
> checking for xlf90... no
> checking for f90... no
> configure: warning: Could not find working Fortran-90 compiler
> configure: warning: The Fortran-90 interface will not be built
> checking for nm utility
> checking for nm... nm
> checking nm flags... 
> checking for C-equivalent to Fortran routine "SUB"... sub
> checking for Fortran "byte"... yes
> checking for Fortran "integer*2"... yes
> checking if Fortran "byte" is C "signed char"... configure: error: Could not 
> compile conftest.c

 ...
> configure:1968: /usr/ccs/bin/cc -c -DNDEBUG -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 conftest.c
> (Bundled) cc: "conftest.c", line 2: warning 5: "signed" will become a keyword.
> (Bundled) cc: "conftest.c", line 2: error 1000: Unexpected symbol: "signed".

The above errors are symptoms of /usr/ccs/bin/cc not correctly
recognizing and compiling a standard C declaration of a "signed
char".  To build for this platform, you will have to either use a
conforming C compiler or install a binary library already built for
HP-UX 11 at

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/binary/hpux_11.00-hp9000/netcdf-3.5.0.tar.Z

--Russ

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