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Greetings Visda, Are you using GCC from xcode? Is the environmental variable $CC set to point to your gcc? Would you mind sending a copy of your config.log, which is in the top level of the netCDF compile directory? Thanks! Sean > Full Name: Visda Goudarzi > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: University of Music and Performing Arts Graz > Package Version: netcdf4 > Operating System: Mac OSX Lion > Hardware: > Description of problem: > > Greetings, > > I try installation of netcdf on Mac OSX Lion but when I try to configure, > I get the error: > > configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables > > I saw a similar question on the Threads but the only answer to that > was if the gcc compiler in available. I also checked that and my gcc > compiler is there and I can compile other c programs from command line > with no problem. Any idea what could be wrong? > > Thanks, > > Visda > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XIK-240934 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open