Building on Enterprise Linux 3

[Nick Wilson]

There is a workaround available from:
http://newweb.ices.utexas.edu/misc/ctype.c

Follow the instructions at the top of the file and it should provide a 
fix for the problem.
Best wishes,
Nick Wilson


Gershom (Jan M.L.) Martin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> as you probably all know, RedHat is in the process of phasing out Red 
> Hat Linux and
> inducing customers to transition to Enterprise Linux 3 (a for-pay product,
> apparently a souped-up RedHat 9). As it happens, we have a site license 
> for that.
> 
> Now: on a dual Pentium Xeon (3.0 GHz) box with RH Enterprise 3 and the
> Intel compilers installed, I ran ./configure -mpp and got the error
> message:
> 
>> Cannot link with any objects !
>> This architecture or combination of architecture and integer
>> size is proably not supported. Sorry ....
> 
> 
> Checking in parse/configure.log revealed
> 
>> parse-i686-pc-linux-gnu-i4.o(.text+0x4893): In function `yylex':
>> : undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
>> parse-i686-pc-linux-gnu-i4.o(.text+0x48b3): In function `yylex':
>> : undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
>> parse-i686-pc-linux-gnu-i4.o(.text+0x498c): In function `yylex':
>> : undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
>> parse-i686-pc-linux-gnu-i4.o(.text+0x49db): In function `yylex':
>> : undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
>> parse-i686-pc-linux-gnu-i4.o(.text+0x4a1d): In function `yylex':
>> : undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
>> parse-i686-pc-linux-gnu-i4.o(.text+0x4ad0): more undefined references 
>> to `__ctype_b' follow
> 
> 
> This is MOLPRO 2002.6 with all the patches. Looks like I need another
> parse file? Or any other suggestion?
> 
> Thanks very much in advance!
> 
> Best regards
> Jan Martin
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