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Greetings Visda, After looking at your log file, it seems as though configure is picking up icc as your C compiler, not gcc. Not only that, but it can't seem to find icc either: ./configure: line 4183: icc: command not found Perhaps something in your environment is set to point to a non-existing icc? If you want to use gcc, set the environmental variable $CC export CC=/usr/bin/gcc (or setenv if your are using a csh based shell) and try running configure again. Cheers! Sean > Hi Sean, > > Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. > > I have Xcode installed but i am using command line. I have also installed > command line told of Xcode and I can compile other c programs from command > line with the same GCC. > > I also tried autoconf and apparently the version of my autoconf doesn't match > to the one for netcdf?! I have no idea where to change the version of that. > > here's my config.log when I just use ./configure and not autoconfig. > > Thanks for your help, > > Visda > > > > > On Nov 15, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Unidata netCDF Support wrote: > > > 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 > > > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: XIK-240934 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Open