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20011008: Installing udunits on a cygwin installation

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  • Subject: 20011008: Installing udunits on a cygwin installation
  • Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 09:09:59 -0600
Peter,

> To: <address@hidden>
> From: "Peter Sauer" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Installing udunits on a cygwin installation:
> Organization: Indiana
> Keywords: 200110071835.f97IZP113094 UDUNITS Cygwin configure

The above message contained the following:

> I haven't found anything that says udunits has been shown to work on a =
> cygwin installation, but I thought I'd try it out. I'm using cygwin I =
> get errors during the configure step, and I can't figure out if there's =
> a way around them.  Maybe you can help, even if it's to say it won't =
> work.
> 
> My computer is an Dell Optiplex GX 400, 1.7 GHz machine, running MS =
> Windows 2000 v. 5.00.2195, Service Pack 2.
> 
> The immediate problem is that when running ./configure, it reports a =
> problem that configure cannot find a definition for LD_YACC (yacc =
> library). Cygwin doesn't have yacc, but does have byacc and bison. I =
> tried running configure after substituting in "byacc" for "yacc", and =
> also after substituting "bison" for "yacc", but got similar hang-ups.

What was the value of the LD_YACC environment variable when you removed
the file "config.cache" and re-executed the configure script?

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>