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[netCDF #OOJ-683540]: Building NetCDF with szlib

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  • Subject: [netCDF #OOJ-683540]: Building NetCDF with szlib
  • Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:06:00 -0700
Hi Thorwald,

> I'm struggling building NetCDF with szip (and HDF5).
> My best attempt seems to get through ./configure and make successfully,
> but fails midway through make check (see logs attached).
> 
> In the directory /home/clouds/cosp.v1.3.2/config I have the following
> libraries installed (with --disable-shared):
> hdf5-1.8.7
> szip-2.1
> zlib-1.2.5
> udunits-2.1.24
> uuid-1.6.2
> 
> After trawling through several online support discussions, I decided to
> try install the latest snapshot (2011111419), which compiled okay but
> lacked the fortran libraries I need.

If you've successfully built and installed the netCDF C library from the 
snapshot, 
getting the Fortran libraries is pretty easy.  Just download the (now separate)
netCDF Fortran release from here:

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-fortran-4.2.tar.gz

and run the configure script, specifying with LDFLAGS or LD_LIBRARY_PATH where 
the
C netCDF library is installed.  By giving a --prefix option to the configure 
script, you can specify where the Fortran libraries should be installed, if 
/usr/local isn't right:

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include ./configure 
--prefix=/where/ever/...

Then run "make check" and "make install" to install the Fortran libraries.  

To link Fortran applications, you will need something like -L/usr/inlcude 
-lnetcdff -lnetcdf
to specify the separate netCDFFortran library before the netCDF C library.

--Russ

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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: OOJ-683540
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed