checking whether size_t and int size match... no

[Reiner Vogelsang]

Dear colleagues,
I tried to run the latest version of parallel netcdf , version 0.8.9, on
a Origin 3800
under Irix64 6.5.19f. The compiler version is MIPSpro Compilers: Version
7.3.1.3m.

My environment had the following variables set:

CC=cc -64 -mips4 -lmpi
CPPFLAGS=-DNDEBUG
CFLAGS=-O
FC=f90 -64
FFLAGS=-O
F90=f90 -64
CXX=CC -64
CXXFLAGS=-O

However, the configure step aborts with the  following message:
.
.
.
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for size_t... yes
checking whether size_t and int size match... no
configure: error: This is a critical error; please report this size
mismatch to
the developers!

Question:

Is it essential that size_t and sizeof(int) should match?
It seems that the configure step works if I compile in a full 32-bit
mode.
However, I would prefer to run the code in 64-bit addressing mode.

Thanks for any hints!

    Reiner






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