Compilation error on Alpha (Tru64)

William Gropp gropp at mcs.anl.gov
Wed Aug 20 07:44:35 CDT 2003


At 01:46 PM 8/20/2003 +0930, Milton Woods wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>On a Compaq Alphaserver using the Tru64 compilers, the configure script 
>aborts with the following message:
>
>checking whether size_t and int size match... no
>configure: error: This is a critical error; please report this size 
>mismatch to the developers!
>
>It appears that size_t is 64 bit while int is 32 bit. There is no obvious 
>way to change this. Any suggestions?

We have a fix for this that we're testing for the next release.  The issue 
only affects the Fortran bindings in any case, and we have also added a 
switch to turn off tests in the configure that only apply to the Fortran 
version.

Bill




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