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[netCDF #YWJ-176640]: NetCDF installation issue in Mac OS

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  • Subject: [netCDF #YWJ-176640]: NetCDF installation issue in Mac OS
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:59:52 -0600
Hi Dian

> I have problem with NetCDF installation on Mac OS X ver.10.8.3.
> 
> I had installed:
> - the gcc,
> - the gfortran,
> - the OSX Xcode
> 
> But somehow something wrong happen. It might connect with this error
> in config.log file:
> gcc: error: unrecognized command line option '-V'
> gcc: fatal error: no input files
> compilation terminated.
> 
> I've attached the config.file here to help you diagnose the problem.
> If you need any other files, please let me know. I appreciate very
> much for your help, thanks.

That '-V' error is not the problem, but this error message from config.log
indicates that gcc is not installed or configured correctly, because it
can't compile a simple C program:

  configure:4225: checking whether the C compiler works
  configure:4247: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
  gcc: error trying to exec 'cc1': execvp: No such file or directory
  configure:4251: $? = 1
  configure:4289: result: no

Until the C compiler is fixed, you can't build the netCDF library.  It
may be something simple, such as your environment variables like PATH
or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, but I can't really help much with that.

Although XCode comes with its own C compiler in /usr/bin, it doesn't
include a gfortran that works with it, and it can be difficult to
get a gcc and gfortran that work well together for OSX.  I suggest
you download and install the compilers from one of these sites:

  http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
  
or follow the advice from one of these sites:

  http://web.mit.edu/mfloyd/www/computing/mac/gfortran/
  http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortranBinaries#MacOS

Alternatively, if you install the "port" package from macports.org, you
can get a the netCDF C and Fortran libraries installed by running the
command

  sudo port install netcdf-fortran

although this can take a long time, because it builds gcc and gfortran from
source first.

--Russ



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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YWJ-176640
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed