Problems installing HDF4 libraries

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? Peter

Problems linking--"undefined reference to..."

more undefined references to `_mcount' follow There is no variable or function called "mcount" in traj_int_obj.cc.  The only external header I use is stdio.h so it must be somehow connected. Any help anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Peter Peter Mi