[MonetDB-users] [Newbie] sizeof(ssize_t) error on Solaris 10

Hello, I am trying to install MonetDB on Solaris 10/UltraSparc III and Fedora6/AMD. I tried running monetdb-install.sh as suggested in the documentation. The Fedora installation went on fine without any hitches. However, the solaris 10 installation failed. The script is failing due to some error on the test which determines sizeof(ssize_t). To see if there was some problem in my sys/types.h I compiled and executed a code which I think is used by the configure script. This test program ran without any issues writing a value of 4 to the conftest.val file. My guess is ssize_t is typedefd as an int on my machine. The test program is as follows : #include #include long longval () { return (long) (sizeof (ssize_t)); } unsigned long ulongval () { return (long) (sizeof (ssize_t)); } #include #include int main () { FILE *f = fopen ("conftest.val", "w"); if (! f) exit (1); if (((long) (sizeof (ssize_t))) < 0) { long i = longval (); if (i != ((long) (sizeof (ssize_t)))) exit (1); fprintf (f, "%ld\n", i); } else { unsigned long i = ulongval (); if (i != ((long) (sizeof (ssize_t)))) exit (1); fprintf (f, "%lu\n", i); } exit (ferror (f) || fclose (f) != 0); ; return 0; } I am attaching the relevant portion of the config.log that is produced. I would appreciate any inputs on how to resolve this issue and why it arises. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ #include | | long longval () { return (long) (sizeof (ssize_t)); } | unsigned long ulongval () { return (long) (sizeof (ssize_t)); } | #include | #include | int | main () | { | | FILE *f = fopen ("conftest.val", "w"); | if (! f) | exit (1); | if (((long) (sizeof (ssize_t))) < 0) | { | long i = longval (); | if (i != ((long) (sizeof (ssize_t)))) | exit (1); | fprintf (f, "%ld\n", i); | } | else | { | unsigned long i = ulongval (); | if (i != ((long) (sizeof (ssize_t)))) | exit (1); | fprintf (f, "%lu\n", i); | } | exit (ferror (f) || fclose (f) != 0); | | ; | return 0; | } configure:26151: error: cannot compute sizeof (ssize_t), 77 See `config.log' for more details. The following is the configure output - MonetDB>./configure checking build system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10 checking host system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10 checking target system type... sparc-sun-solaris2.10 checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for gawk... gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes checking for style of include used by make... GNU checking for gcc... gcc checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out checking whether the C compiler works... yes checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking for suffix of executables... checking for suffix of object files... o checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed checking dependency style of gcc... none checking for egrep... egrep checking for ANSI C header files... no checking for sys/types.h... yes checking for sys/stat.h... yes checking for stdlib.h... yes checking for string.h... yes checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E checking for gcc... (cached) gcc checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... (cached) none needed checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) none checking for long... yes checking size of long... 4 checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... yes checking if your compiler is C99 compliant... yes checking for ant... no checking for java... /bin/java checking for Java >= 1.4, but < 1.6... yes -> 1.5.0_12 found checking for javac... /bin/javac checking for jar... /bin/jar checking for javadoc... /bin/javadoc checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/local/bin/gsed checking for option to reload object files... -r checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/local/bin/nm -B checking whether ln -s works... yes checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all checking dlfcn.h usability... no checking dlfcn.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: dlfcn.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to monet@cwi.nl ## configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------- ## checking for dlfcn.h... yes checking for g++... g++ checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes checking dependency style of g++... none checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... g++ -E checking for g77... g77 checking whether we are using the GNU Fortran 77 compiler... yes checking whether g77 accepts -g... yes checking for flex... flex checking lex output file root... lex.yy checking whether yytext is a pointer... no checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/local/bin/ginstall -c checking for ld used by gcc... /usr/ccs/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no checking the maximum length of command line arguments... 262144 checking command to parse /usr/local/bin/nm -B output from gcc object... ok checking for objdir... .libs checking for ar... ar checking for ranlib... ranlib checking for strip... strip checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions... no checking for gcc option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if gcc PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if gcc static flag -static works... no checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the gcc linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... solaris2.10 ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes checking for shl_load... no checking for shl_load in -ldld... no checking for dlopen... yes checking whether a program can dlopen itself... yes checking whether a statically linked program can dlopen itself... yes checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no configure: creating libtool appending configuration tag "CXX" to libtool checking for ld used by g++... /usr/ccs/bin/ld checking if the linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) is GNU ld... no checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking for g++ option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g++ PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g++ static flag -static works... no checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g++ linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... solaris2.10 ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate appending configuration tag "F77" to libtool checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes checking whether to build shared libraries... yes checking whether to build static libraries... no checking for g77 option to produce PIC... -fPIC checking if g77 PIC flag -fPIC works... yes checking if g77 static flag -static works... no checking if g77 supports -c -o file.o... yes checking whether the g77 linker (/usr/ccs/bin/ld) supports shared libraries... yes checking dynamic linker characteristics... solaris2.10 ld.so checking how to hardcode library paths into programs... immediate checking for ANSI C header files... (cached) no checking whether time.h and sys/time.h may both be included... yes checking for dirent.h that defines DIR... yes checking for library containing opendir... none required checking alloca.h usability... no checking alloca.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: alloca.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: alloca.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: alloca.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: alloca.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" configure: WARNING: alloca.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: alloca.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to monet@cwi.nl ## configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------- ## checking for alloca.h... yes checking getopt.h usability... no checking getopt.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: getopt.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: getopt.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: getopt.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: getopt.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" configure: WARNING: getopt.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: getopt.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to monet@cwi.nl ## configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------- ## checking for getopt.h... yes checking netdb.h usability... no checking netdb.h presence... yes configure: WARNING: netdb.h: present but cannot be compiled configure: WARNING: netdb.h: check for missing prerequisite headers? configure: WARNING: netdb.h: see the Autoconf documentation configure: WARNING: netdb.h: section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled" configure: WARNING: netdb.h: proceeding with the preprocessor's result configure: WARNING: netdb.h: in the future, the compiler will take precedence configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------- ## configure: WARNING: ## Report this to monet@cwi.nl ## configure: WARNING: ## --------------------------- ## checking for netdb.h... yes checking for sys/types.h... (cached) yes checking for special C compiler options needed for large files... no checking for _FILE_OFFSET_BITS value needed for large files... no checking for _LARGE_FILES value needed for large files... no checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes checking for size_t... no checking return type of signal handlers... int checking for ptrdiff_t... yes checking for ssize_t... yes checking for __int64... no checking for long long... no checking for char... no checking size of char... 0 checking for short... no checking size of short... 0 checking for int... no checking size of int... 0 checking for long... (cached) yes checking size of long... (cached) 4 checking for void *... no checking size of void *... 0 checking for size_t... (cached) no checking size of size_t... 0 checking for ssize_t... (cached) yes checking size of ssize_t... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (ssize_t), However, I think the problem is somewhere above this line as I was getting sizeof(char), sizeof (long long) as zeros. Kindly guide me as I am a relative newbie to MonetDB. Thanks in advance, Pranav. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-Newbie--sizeof%28ssize_t%29-error-on-Solaris-10-tf443... Sent from the monetdb-users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.