[netcdfgroup] netcdf fortran configure fail on sizeof

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] netcdf fortran configure fail on sizeof
• From: Ted Mansell <ted.mansell@xxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 16:03:48 -0500

I'm trying to configure/compile the netcdf-fortran-4 on an AMD/Redhat Linux 
system, and 4.2, 4.4.0, 4.4.2 all are having a problem with configure. No 
problem with the netcdf-c (e.g., netcdf-c-4.3.1.1). It is failing on the 
"sizeof" tests, where an extra set of parentheses is getting put around the 
test variable (e.g., _Bool, off_t, etc.) so that the compile of conftest.c 
fails because it has

  if (sizeof ((_Bool)))

when it should be

  if (sizeof (_Bool))

The netcdf-c does exactly the same test, but apparently does not add the 
extraneous parentheses. I'm using Portland Group 10.8 (it's an older AMD 
system: Linux alpha 2.6.18-398.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 12 06:26:17 EDT 2014 x86_64 
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux).

I suppose this is some kind of autoconf issue?

-- Ted

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