Re: 20060103:netCDF installation error mac os 10.4 tiger

Here is your problem:

configure:1582: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:1585: cc -g   conftest.c  >&5
ld: can't locate file for: -lcrt1.o
configure:1588: $? = 1


Your C compiler is, in some way, broken.

Funny thing is, I have just encountered this same error myself, on a
new (to me) linux system. I haven't yet figured out what the heck is
going on with it, but I get this missing crt1 file as well.

Furthermore, it has nothing to do with netCDF. I get this error when I
am trying to upgrade gcc! So what is going on, I don't know.

In any case, the program that the netCDF configure was trying to
compile is a very simple C program:

configure: failed program was:
| /* confdefs.h.  */
| 
| #define PACKAGE_NAME "netCDF"
| #define PACKAGE_TARNAME "netcdf"
| #define PACKAGE_VERSION "3.6.1"
| #define PACKAGE_STRING "netCDF 3.6.1"
| #define PACKAGE_BUGREPORT "address@hidden"
| /* end confdefs.h.  */
| 
| int
| main ()
| {
| 
|   ;
|   return 0;
| }

As you can see, this is just a program that does nothing and returns
0. If your C compiler doesn't compile it, then you can't compile
netCDF.

I suggest you contact your sysadmin about this. Or try upgrading gcc
(which is reasonably old, version 3.3 - the latest official release is
4.0).

But I know that netCDF compiles with older versions of gcc than
that. However, your gcc seems to be broken.

If I figure out more clearly what is going wrong, I'll let you
know. For now, all I can say is that you don't have a working C
compiler.

Have you tried the netCDF binaries? They can be installed without a C
compiler...

Ed
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