Re: NetCDF and DDI -- file format

Mike,

>       Hello, again.  I typed in the following commands in order to 
> create a NetCDF library ( with a f77 fortran compiler ) :
>   configure --prefix=/home3/notaro/netcdf-232pl2
>   setenv FC f77
>   ./configure --prefix=/home3/notaro/netcdf-232pl2
>   make all
>   make test
>   make install
>   make clean
> 
> Shouldn't this create the library?

Yes, that looks fine.  If this executed OK and didn't produce any error
messages, the library should have been created and installed.

> In the program you sent me, I changed the line:
>   INCLUDE '/usr/local/include/netcdf.inc'
> to:
>   INCLUDE '/home3/notaro/netcdf-232pl2/include/netcdf.inc'
> 
> However, when I compile this program, using f77 program.f -o program, I get
> a compilation failure with it saying:
>   Undefined symbol
>     _ncclos_
>     _ncendf_
>     _ncvdef_
>     _ncvpt_
>     _nccre_
> 
> Does this mean the library was never installed?  What should I do?

No, you just need to tell f77 where to find the installed library, using
something like:

    f77 program.f -o program -L/home3/notaro/netcdf-232pl2 -lnetcdf

If you want it to find the include file, you should probably also add the
flag

   -I /home3/notaro/netcdf-232pl2/include

to tell f77 where to look for it if it's not in the current working
directory, although some platforms have a different way of specifying
include directory search paths for Fortran compilers.

--Russ