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[netCDF #GEE-249764]: problem installing with netcdf4 enabled

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  • Subject: [netCDF #GEE-249764]: problem installing with netcdf4 enabled
  • Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:14:06 -0700
Hi David,

> I am trying to installed 4.0 with netcdf4 enabled. I have hdf5 (1.6.10)
> installed but it chokes during the configure stage.
> 
> % ./configure  -enable-netcdf-4 --with-hdf5=/usr/local/hdf5
> and eventually gives:
> 
> checking hdf5.h usability... yes
> checking hdf5.h presence... yes
> checking for hdf5.h... yes
> checking for H5Fflush in -lhdf5... yes
> checking for H5DSis_scale in -lhdf5_hl... no
> configure: error: Can't find the hdf5 high-level library. The high-level
> library is required for netCDF-4.
> 
> It wasn't clear to me what the hdf5 high-level library is (I have no hdf5
> experience) and searching online didn't bring up much useful.

The netCDF-4 software requires HDF-5 versaion 1.8 or later, and we
currently recommend that you install the latest version of HDF5
(currently 1.8.4) before trying to build and install netCDF-4:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/netcdf-install/Requirements.html

The hdf5_hl is needed by netCDF-4 for the dimension scales functions,
in order to implement netCDF's concept of shared dimensions, which are
not part of the HDF5 data model.

--Russ


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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: GEE-249764
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed