[ncl-install] ncl on solaris 10x86

[Rick Grubin]

Hi Julie
> I’m wondering if anyone able to compile NCL on Solaris 10x86.
>

I'm not aware of anyone building on this platform, perhaps someone  
else will speak up!  Otherwise, the NCL team does not have access to  
such a system, thus we've not tried to build NCL on Solaris 10x86.
> Gcc –v
>
> gcc version 3.4.6
>

This is a somewhat old version of gcc; are  you able to upgrade to v4.x?
>  I tried with gcc version 3.4.6 local installation.  “make  
> Everthing” got following error:
>
>  gcc -ansi -fPIC  -O  -I../../../.././include -I/usr/X11R6/include   
> -DSPOOL_TRANS='"ctrans"' -DNGTMPDIR='"tmp"' -DBINDIR='"bin"' - 
> DLIBDIR='"lib"' -DNCARGDIR='"ncarg"'  -DSYSV -D_POSIX_SOURCE - 
> D_XOPEN_SOURCE -DByteSwapped -DNeedFuncProto   -c  ictrans.c
>
> In file included from ictrans.c:52:
>
> /usr/include/sys/resource.h:146: error: field `ru_utime' has  
> incomplete type
>
> /usr/include/sys/resource.h:147: error: field `ru_stime' has  
> incomplete type
>
> *** Error code 1
>

Note that the error message is complaining about a system header  
file, and not a part of the NCL code base.  When this sort of thing  
happens, the first thing I suspect is a compiler and system  
development environment that "do not play well together."  Sometimes,  
upgrading the compiler fixes the problem, which is why I ask about  
upgrading it.
> Compile using Sun Studio 12 also got similar error:
>
> cc -Xt  -O  -I../../../.././include -I/usr/X11R6/include  - 
> DSPOOL_TRANS='"ctrans"' -DNGTMPDIR='"tmp"' -DBINDIR='"bin"' - 
> DLIBDIR='"lib"' -DNCARGDIR='"ncarg"'  -DSYSV - 
> D_POSIX_SOURCE=199506L -D_XOPEN_SOURCE -DNeedFuncProto   -c  ictrans.c
>
> "/usr/include/sys/resource.h", line 146: incomplete struct/union/ 
> enum timeval: ru_utime
>

Again, note that the error refers to a system header file, and not  
part of the NCL code base.

Is it possible that your system development environment is somehow  
corrupted or not installed properly?

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Rick Grubin      NCAR/TDD/CISL/VETS
Visualization + Enabling Technologies
grubin at ucar.edu             303.497.1832