[netCDF #TSF-919053]: NetCDF test error

Hi Edwin,

Oops, the released installation guide doesn't even mention the --enable-cxx4
option to configure.  The new install documentation at

   http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs_snapshot/netcdf-install.html

says:

  --enable-cxx4
      Turns on the new C++ API, which is currently under development,
      and will expose the full expanded model in the C++ API. The cxx4
      API is experiemental, unfinished, and untested. It is provided
      for experiemental purposes only.

What is there now is the result of a summer student project.  Another
collaborator has just begun looking at it with an eye to finishing it,
but that's why --enable-cxx-4 is not the default for configure at this
time.

What you want to do is build without it, and use the C API from C++,
which will be built by default and which supports netCDF-4 classic
model file access.

We hope that the cxx4 API will be ready in a future release of netCDF,
but it is not ready now.

--Russ


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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: TSF-919053
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed