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> Hi Ed, > > > I would very much welcome some help from a user skilled in > > cross-compilation for their platform. Anyone who would like to try a > > cross-compile should send me any problems within the next week or so, > > so that fixes can get into the upcoming 4.0.1 release. I will be > > happy to work with you to get it working. > > now I'll take you at your words... ;-) Wonderful! BTW I just sent an empty reply by accident, so please ignore it. > > Is there an alternative way method to provide the test results > so that proper configuration files are generated? Yes, use the --disable-fortran-type-check. (You also want to use --disable-fortran-compiler-check.) Then adjust the values in config.h. The defaults are set in configure.ac: AC_DEFINE(NCBYTE_T, byte) AC_DEFINE(NCSHORT_T, integer*2) AC_DEFINE(NF_INT1_T, byte) AC_DEFINE(NF_INT2_T, integer*2) AC_DEFINE(NF_INT1_IS_C_SIGNED_CHAR, 1, [default]) AC_DEFINE(NF_INT2_IS_C_SHORT, 1, [default]) AC_DEFINE(NF_INT_IS_C_INT, 1, [default]) AC_DEFINE(NF_REAL_IS_C_FLOAT, 1, [default]) AC_DEFINE(NF_DOUBLEPRECISION_IS_C_DOUBLE, 1, [default]) > > Running configure on the target machine works, but then one > should also compile on the target machine, since some settings > might not be compatible on both machines. > (Although paths can be faked via symlinks, which I did for [ng]awk). > > Even after these tricks, the cross-compile stops here: > > make[2]: Entering directory > `/e/uhome/hanlauf/src/packages/netcdf-4/netcdf-4.0-snapshot2008100802/ncdump' > ../ncgen/ncgen -c -o ctest0.nc ./../ncgen/c0.cdl > ./ctest.c > /bin/ksh: ../ncgen/ncgen: cannot execute [Exec format error] > make[2]: *** [ctest.c] Error 126 > > Regenerating the file ctest.c is not possible during cross-compile. > Maybe one should keep a reference of ctest.c for these cases, > and just compare the result of the above ncgen command with > the reference during a "native build". > If there is a way in the configure file to detect that a cross-compile is taking place I can turn off that test in those cases. Do you know of such a way? Does "make all" work for you? Thanks, Ed Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: LMQ-446031 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed