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Re: 20030506:FreeBSD m4 netCDF-3.5.0 -B10000

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  • Subject: Re: 20030506:FreeBSD m4 netCDF-3.5.0 -B10000
  • Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 14:11:28 -0600
>To: address@hidden
>From: Jason Bacon <address@hidden>
>Subject: Minor configure script bug
>Organization: MCW
>Keywords: 200305011634.h41GYJ7U010358

Hi Jason,

> FYI, the configure script included with netcdf-3.5.0 fails under FreeBSD ( 
> Tested on 4.6 and 4.7 ) because the FreeBSD m4 command does not support the 
> -B option.
> 
> If the -B10000 option is removed from the configure script, everything seems 
> to run fine.
> 
> It will also work if forced to use gm4 instead of m4.  I noticed references 
> to 
> gm4 in configure and in aclocal.m4, but for some reason, configure selects m4 
> even if gm4 is available.  The gm4 command is very easy to add to a FreeBSD 
> system, so it wouldn't be unreasonable to require it, if that would be easier 
> than eliminating the -B10000 option.

Thanks for reporting this.  We haven't gotten around to duplicating
the problem yet or seeing if it's already fixed in
netCDF-3.5.1-beta10, but it's now on our TO-DO list.

--Russ