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20011012: netcdf-perl install failure

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  • Subject: 20011012: netcdf-perl install failure
  • Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 11:26:53 -0600
Kristin,

> >From: "Kristin Y. Roberts" <address@hidden>
> >Subject: netcdf-perl support
> >Organization: NASA/LARC
> >Keywords: 200110121609.f9CG9T115769 netCDF-Perl

The above message contained the following:

> I have perl v5.6.0 and the latest version of netCDF, both of which appear
> to work fine, but when I go to install netcdf-perl, I get errors. It
> appears that the perl/Makefile cannot find my netcdf library, tho I set
> LD_NETCDF=-I/usr/local/lib -lnetcdf in the environment, as suggested, and
> the netCDF lib is indeed located in /usr/local/lib. Could you please help
> me complete the installation of netCDF-perl?

Use "-L/usr/local/lib" rather than "-I/usr/local/lib".  If the
documentation says to use the "-I" form, then that's a mistake.

Remember to execute the commands "make distclean" and "rm -f
config.cache" before re-executing the configure script.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>