Stacy, I was wrong about something I told you when you called about this question. I said the "-with-hdf5" option to configure is supported in netCDF version 4.1.3, but not in version 4.2. Actually it's not supported in either version. The last version in which "--with-hdf5" worked was 4.1.2. Here's some reasons why support for "--with-hdf5" was dropped: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/mailing_lists/archives/netcdfgroup/2011/msg00345.html https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/jira/browse/NCF-20 So whether you want to build with 4.2 (recommended) or 4.1.3 versions, you will need to define the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables, as in: CPPFLAGS=-I/home/ed/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/home/ed/local/lib ./configure --prefix=/home/ed/local make check install --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: CVA-598913 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed