Problem building netcdf-1.0.0 on Mac OS 10.8 using recent compilers.

[Alexander Hansen]

Hi.

I'm getting pretty much the same error when I use any of the following 
compilers that are available to Fink users on OS 10.8 to install the 
netcdf package:

Apple's clang:
 clang --version
Apple LLVM version 4.2 (clang-425.0.28) (based on LLVM 3.2svn)

Apple's llvm-gcc:
$ llvm-gcc-4.2 --version
i686-apple-darwin11-llvm-gcc-4.2 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 
5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00)

FSF gcc 4.7.3 or 4.8.1 (we have earlier gcc's for prior OS versions, but 
I'd like to be able to put out a package that works on 10.8)

The failure is as follows (slightly re-ordered):

mkoctfile __netcdf__.cc -L/sw/lib -lnetcdf

__netcdf__.cc:112:15: error: ambiguous conversion for C-style cast from
      'octave_int<unsigned long long>' to 'size_t' (aka 'unsigned long')
          start[i] = (size_t)tmp(ndims-i-1);
                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/sw/include/octave-3.6.4/octave/oct-inttypes.h:777:3: note: candidate 
function
  operator T (void) const { return value (); }
  ^
/sw/include/octave-3.6.4/octave/oct-inttypes.h:781:3: note: candidate 
function
  operator double (void) const { return double_value (); }
  ^
/sw/include/octave-3.6.4/octave/oct-inttypes.h:783:3: note: candidate 
function
  operator float (void) const { return float_value (); }
  ^
...

Any thoughts on a workaround?
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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