ANSI C header files

[Marco Atzeri]

On 10/4/2011 10:11 AM, Csaba Raduly wrote:
> Hi Kare,
>
> 2011/10/4 KÃ¥re Edvardsen
>> Hi Marco.
>>
>> In my case I'm trying to install the 'grib_api' package from source
>> (grib_api-1.9.9.tar.gz) found at
>> http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/software/download/grib_api.html
>>
>> After unpacking the tar-ball you're supposed to run 'configure' before
>> installing but 'configure' hangs on "checking for ANSI C header
>> files..."
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kare
>>
>> The output looks like this:
>>
>> $ ./configure --prefix=/user/kare/software/ecmwf/lib
>> 1.9.9
>> configuring grib_api 1.9.9
>> checking whether build environment is sane... yes
>> checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
>> checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /usr/bin/mkdir -p
> (snip)
>> checking for library containing opendir... none required
>> checking for ANSI C header files...
>>
>>
>>
>> On ma., 2011-10-03 at 15:18 +0200, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
> Please do not top-post: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU
>
> Kill configure and take a look at the end of config.log
> configure logs each check and what it actually does.
>
> Csaba

Kare,
in addition to the TOFU advise,

running configure of grib_api-1.9.9_libtool.tar.gz
on my XP-SP3 gave no problem.

"Configuration completed."

The ANSI C test is a basic one

configure:6808: checking for ANSI C header files
configure:6828: gcc -c -g -O2  conftest.c >&5
configure:6828: $? = 0
configure:6901: gcc -o conftest.exe -g -O2   conftest.c  >&5
configure:6901: $? = 0
configure:6901: ./conftest.exe
configure:6901: $? = 0
configure:6912: result: yes

so a BLODA interference is possible
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

see also
http://cygwin.com/problems.html

Regards
Marco


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