[netCDF #RMQ-116404]: NETCDF install issues

> Yeah you are right. I downloaded the developer version. 

Great, then you should be able to build and install netcdf-4.3.0 by
just using the tarball and following the instructions here:

  http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/docs/build_classic.html

>  ...                                                Did you happen
> to see the error related to siZeof_t?

No, but the svn developer version may have bugs in it that change from
day to day, since it's not a released version that has gone through all
our tests on various platforms.

--Russ
 
> On Jun 13, 2013, at 2:51 PM, Unidata netCDF Support
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Evan,
> >
> >> I didn't modify any files. And I have the most current version of
> >> automake. I just installed 4.2 on a fresh machine and got it going. I
> >> guess it's just 4.3 that causes issues for me. I am not using a normal
> >> distribution of Linux, we use a realm distribution from redhat
> >> specific to NC State. I have a feeling that this is the root issue and
> >> not netcdf. Is there a log that configure created that I can refer to?
> >> I want to see if any parts of the configure failed due to a lack of
> >> permissions. Thanks again for your help!
> >
> > Thanks for the config.log files.  They don't reveal anything helpful, but
> > made me think to ask an important question:  Did you get netCDF-4.3.0 from
> > one of our distribution tarballs:
> >
> >  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4.3.0.tar.gz
> >  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4.3.0.zip
> >
> > or did you get the developer version from our SVN repository:
> >
> >  https://sub.unidata.ucar.edu/netcdf/trunk/
> >
> > If you got the developer version, it would not have contained the configure
> > script or aclocal.m4, and you would have had to run autoreconf to
> > generate those.  That might explain why you got the message
> >
> >> WARNING: 'aclocal-1.13' is missing on your system.
> >> You should only need it if you modified 'acinclude.m4' or
> >> 'configure.ac' or m4 files included by 'configure.ac'.
> >
> > You definitely should build from the actual ftp tarball.
> >
> > Another remote possibility is that you retrieved a bad version of the 
> > tarball
> > that existed on our FTP site for a few hours on May 3, before it was 
> > replaced
> > by a corrected version, and you have been building from that bad tarball.  
> > If
> > that's the problem, apologies, we didn't think anyone retrieved that 
> > distribution
> > before we fixed it.
> >
> > Otherwise, I don't know why you're seeing the error, which we can't 
> > reproduce ...
> >
> > --Russ
> >
> > Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
> > address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: RMQ-116404
> > Department: Support netCDF
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Closed
> >
> 
> 
Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: RMQ-116404
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed