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[netCDF #PSA-339289]: netCDF 4.3.3 build problem....

Hi Michael,

Another user has asked about the same problem you encountered building 
netCDF for Solaris.

Did you ever come up with a workaround or fix that let you compile, check, and
install netCDF-4.3.3 on Solaris 9? Or did you upgrade and succeed that way?

I'm asking, because I would be able to either pass on whatever solution you came
up with, or incorporate any workaround you found into our next release, if all 
our 
tests then passed on other platforms.

--Russ

> Michael,
> 
> Solaris 9 (SunOS 2.9) is a pretty old platform that doesn't incorporate
> some of the C99 portability that's available in the stdint.h header file,
> for example, but some of the netCDF C library depends on integer
> type definitions from stdint.h. We had a Solaris 10 platform here on
> which we tested netCDF-4, but I don't think we tested on Solaris 9.
> 
> I see we have a file libsrc/pstdint.h that's supposed to provide some
> of the portability macros provided by C99's stdint.h, but it's not
> completely portable, and that seems to be the cause of the compile
> problems you're seeing.
> 
> We no longer have a Solaris platform available for testing, and even if
> we did, it wouldn't be that old. Is it possible to use the fact that it won't
> even compile the netCDF library as a justification to upgrade it to a more
> recent version of Solaris? That's all I can recommend at this point, unless
> you want to do some debugging, find out exactly which portability macros
> stdint.h are needed, and find out how they should be defined for your
> Solaris system ...
> 
> Or maybe you can get a more recent version of SunStudio-11 that runs on
> Solaris 9 from Oracle, and try the C compiler that comes with that.
> 
> --Russ
> 
> > we seem to fail building netCDF 4.3.3 on our Solaris computer. Attached an 
> > e-mail with the details.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Michael Schick (EUMETSAT)
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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PSA-339289
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed