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Re: 20030402:successful build of netcdf

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  • Subject: Re: 20030402:successful build of netcdf
  • Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 16:28:09 -0700
>To: address@hidden
>From: "L. Holcombe" <address@hidden>
>Subject: successful build of netcdf
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200304022144.h32LiE7U015878 Interix XP

Hi Leigh,

> Just wanted to report a successful build of the NetCDF
> version 3.5.0 libraries on my system.  I thought your
> troubled customers might like to know what worked for
> me.  This is slightly different than Paul Wessel's
> report at:
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/other-builds.html#interix
> 
> OS: Interix via Windows XP Pro
> 
> environment variables:
> % setenv CC /usr/contrib/bin/gcc
> % setenv CXX
> % setenv FC
> % setenv F90
> (since no fortran or C++ compiler was available)
> 
> potential issues:
> *using WinZip to untar the archive is a bad idea.  
> 
> *failing to set the CC variable will result in a
> successful configure but a failed make, because the
> code defaults to c89 as its compiler, which on this
> system is simply a reference to the MSVisualC++
> compiler, which it won't find unless it is installed
> locally.  gcc works just fine.
> 
> *using these same variables, I have had successful
> builds with both versions 3.5.0 and 3.4.0.
> 
> *GMT users will want to add the following line to
> their
> /usr/etc/csh.lcl file:
> % setenv NETCDFHOME /usr/local/netcdf-3.5.0
> leave the csh.login and csh.cshrc files alone!  they
> reference the csh.lcl file.

I've added your contribution to

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/other-builds.html#interix-xp

> Thank you so much for providing such great support for
> your products.  I hope that my minor contribution will
> offer someone out there some assistance, and thus pay
> back my debt to the computing community.

Thanks for taking the time to contribute!

--Russ

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Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://my.unidata.ucar.edu