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On 02/08/2010 11:44 PM, Peter Mills wrote:
>
> I've been trying to install the Hierarchical Data Format (HDF) version 4
> libraries for use in a Python program. The configure script aborts with the
> following message:
>
> checking size of int*... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (int*)
>
> Could this be a bug in the compiler?

Pretty unlikely for something that sounds this simple.  I'd recommend
looking at the code generated by the configure script.  There's likely
some problem in there somewhere.

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