20030128: problems with udunits on compaq system

Jason,

>Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 09:51:13 +1100 (EST)
>From: Jason Roberts <address@hidden>
>Organization: TPAC/Australia
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20030128: problems with udunits on compaq system 

The above message contained the following:

> The output I get from the make utlib.i is
> 
> > cd lib
> > make utlib.i
> cc -E -I../port/misc -I../port/cfortran
> -DUT_DEFAULT_PATH='"/short/e93/jlr581/udunits_test/udunits-1.11.7/etc/udunits.dat"'
> -std utlib.c > utlib.i
> > grep getenv utlib.i
>         path    = getenv("UDUNITS_PATH");

I still don't like it because it indicates a problem with your
development environment.

A similar problem occurred later in your build:

    cc -c -O -I../port/misc -I../port/cfortran 
-DUT_DEFAULT_PATH='"/short/e93/jlr581/udunits-1.11.7/etc/udunits.dat"'  -std 
udalloc.c
    cc: Warning: udalloc.c, line 34: In the initializer for mem, "malloc(...)" 
of type "int", is being converted to "pointer to void". (cvtdiftypes)
            voidp   mem     = malloc(nbytes);
    --------------------------^

I'm concerned that this might cause hard-to-diagnose problems and I want
to eliminate it before progressing to mere guessing about what's wrong.

Does the file port/misc/stdlib.h exist?

If not, would you please look at the file /usr/include/stdlib.h and try
to determine why its getenv() and malloc() declarations aren't being
seen by the C compiler.

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