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Howdy Orion,
What is the deal with this patch?
It seems to want to use pkg-config to tell us about installed
libraries. Does this work on all platforms? Or just Linux?
Is there a reason that pkg-config is better than what we have here?
Thanks,
Ed
"Orion Poplawski" <address@hidden> writes:
> netcdf-4.1-beta2-pkgconfig does not appear to be applied in today's snaphot.
--- netcdf-4.1-beta2-snapshot2009102000/nc-config.in.pkgconfig 2009-09-24
12:42:06.000000000 -0600
+++ netcdf-4.1-beta2-snapshot2009102000/nc-config.in 2009-10-24
13:22:26.588585310 -0600
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
prefix=@prefix@
exec_prefix=${prefix}
-libdir=${exec_prefix}/lib
includedir=${prefix}/include
cc="@CC@"
@@ -16,8 +15,6 @@
fc="@FC@"
cflags=" -I${includedir}"
fflags="@FFLAGS@ @MOD_FLAG@${includedir}"
-libs="-L${libdir} @NC_LIBS@"
-flibs="-L${libdir} @NC_FLIBS@"
has_dap="@HAS_DAP@"
has_nc2="@HAS_NC2@"
has_nc4="@HAS_NC4@"
@@ -134,11 +131,11 @@
;;
--libs)
- echo $libs
+ pkg-config netcdf --libs
;;
--flibs)
- echo $flibs
+ pkg-config netcdf --flibs
;;
--has-dap)
--
Ed Hartnett -- address@hidden
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: WTM-237180
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Urgent
Status: Open