Re: Status of NCL under MacOS 10.6 (64-bit)

From: Sourish Basu <sbasu_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Fri Nov 13 2009 - 01:26:40 MST

> I see that Sourish posted a response. The question I have about using
> gcc 4.2 is whether you get a 64-bit compile by default. I think this
> is the heart of the issue: HDF4 is not expecting the MacOS build to be
> on a 64-bit system, so it tries to treat the configuration as if it's
> a 32-bit one. This causes conflicting information during the
> "configure" phase.
>
> I believe that you could do a build from source if you went into
> 32-bit mode, by forcing the "-m32" option. However this defeats the
> purpose of getting a 64-bit system.

I used gcc-4.4.1 to build HDF4. That version (at least the one installed
by fink) does not accept the "-arch" flag. It does accept the
"-m32/-m64" flag, but I didn't use it. So I'm not sure if the HDF
library I have is 32 bit or 64 bit. Is there any way of checking?

-Sourish
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