20040817: NetCDF installation problem

Vladimir,

>Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:27:47 +0200
>From: "Vladimir Meerson" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Israel Meteorological Service
>To: "Steve Emmerson" <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20040815: NetCDF installation problem 
> Keywords: 200408111149.i7BBnPaW019090 netCDF IRIX

The above message contained the following:

> I've tried the next things:
> 
> 1. configure file was changed (attached)
> 
> 2. After "make distclean" and configure execution,
>    ssize_t wasn't found (configure.log attached).
> 
> 3. In file conftest.c "STDC_HEADERS" was replaced with "1" (attached)
> 
> 4. /lib/cpp -DNDEBUG conftest.c | egrep "...ssize_t..." returns nothing.

I'm not sure that "...ssize_t..." is the best pattern to use.  What
results from just "egrep ssize_t" if the preprocessor conditional is
"#if 1"?

> 5. I've tried also to replace "STDC_HEADERS" with "0" - same result.

I'd expect that because "ssize_t" should be defined in <stddef.h>.

> Regards,
> Vladimir
...

Regards,
Steve Emmerson