[netCDF #XFB-201563]: no libnetcdff.a file

Hi Sandy,

> I am trying to build netcdf version 4.1.1 on computer:
> 
> Model Name:   MacBook Pro 17"
> Model Identifier:     MacBookPro2,1
> Processor Name:       Intel Core 2 Duo
> Processor Speed:      2.33 GHz
> Number Of Processors: 1
> Total Number Of Cores:        2
> L2 Cache (per processor):     4 MB
> Memory:       2 GB
> Bus Speed:    667 MHz
> Boot ROM Version:     MBP21.00A5.B08
> SMC Version:  1.14f5
> 
> running MAC OSX 10.4.11.
> 
> I am using the gfortran compilers and am trying to compile the F90
> interface.  The output of running configure and 'make check install'
> are attached . .  They seem to run without issue.  Here is the output
> of running nc-config:
> 
> 
> This netCDF 4.1.1 has been built with the following features:
> 
> --cc        -> cc
> --cflags    ->  -I/Users/sandy/netcdf/netcdf-4.1.1/include
> --libs      -> -L/Users/sandy/netcdf/netcdf-4.1.1/lib -lnetcdf -
> lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -lz
> 
> --cxx       -> g++
> --has-c++   -> yes
> 
> --fc        -> gfortran
> --fflags    -> -g -O2 -I/Users/sandy/netcdf/netcdf-4.1.1/include
> --flibs     -> -L/Users/sandy/netcdf/netcdf-4.1.1/lib -lnetcdf -
> lcurl -lssl -lcrypto -lz
> --has-f77   -> yes
> --has-f90   -> yes
> 
> --has-dap   -> yes
> --has-nc2   -> yes
> --has-nc4   -> no
> --has-hdf5  -> no
> --has-hdf4  -> no
> --has-szlib -> no
> 
> --prefix    -> /Users/sandy/netcdf/netcdf-4.1.1
> --includedir-> /Users/sandy/netcdf/netcdf-4.1.1/include
> --version   -> netCDF 4.1.1
> 
> 
> The problem is that no libnetcdff.a file is generated in the lib
> directory so when I try to compile my program I get:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> ___netcdf_MOD_nf90_close
> ___netcdf_MOD_nf90_open
> ___netcdf_MOD_nf90_strerror
> 
> Wazzupp?

No libnetcdff.a file is generated becasue you didn't specify wither of the
configure options --enable-shared or --enable-separate-fortran (which would
be turned on automatically if shared libraries were built).  So your build
should have put the Fortran API into the libnetcdf.a library that was installed.

I just checked this by building from 4.1.1 the way you did, and no libnetcdff.a
was installed, just libnetcdf.a and libnetcdf.la, but gfortran still built f90
programs OK:

  $ FC=gfortran ./configure --disable-netcdf-4 --prefix=/machine/russ/nc411
  $ make check install
   ...
  test$ cp ../netcdf-4.1.1/examples/F90/simple_xy_wr.f90 .
  test$ /machine/russ/nc411/bin/nc-config --fflags
  -g -O2 -I/machine/russ/nc411/include
  test$ /machine/russ/nc411/bin/nc-config --flibs
  -L/machine/russ/nc411/lib -lnetcdf -lcurl
  test$ gfortran -g -O2 -I/machine/russ/nc411/include simple_xy_wr.f90 -o 
simple_xy_wr -L/machine/russ/nc411/lib -lnetcdf -lcurl
  test$ ./simple_xy_wr
   *** SUCCESS writing example file simple_xy.nc! 

So I can't reproduce the problem you are seeing.  Maybe you have a previous 
installation with older shared libraries, and those are being used instead of
the new static library you just installed?

I doubt is this is a version issue, but here are the versions of compiler and 
OS 
I'm using:

  test$ gfortran --version
  GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5659) + GF 4.2.4
  test$ cc --version
  i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5664)
  test$ uname -a
  Darwin mort.unidata.ucar.edu 10.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 
18:28:53 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

--Russ



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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XFB-201563
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed