[netCDF #NYG-547290]: problems building ncdf4 with hdf5

Hi Adam,

> When attempting to build netcdf-4.3.0, I get the following error:
> 
> checking for library containing H5Fflush... -lhdf5
> checking for library containing H5DSis_scale... -lhdf5_hl
> checking hdf5.h usability... no
> checking hdf5.h presence... no
> checking for hdf5.h... no
> configure: error: Compiling a test with HDF5 failed.  Either hdf5.h cannot be 
> found, or config.log should be checked for other reason.

If the suggestion below doesn't work, please send the config.log file. It has
more information about the causes of such failures than the messages from 
running 
configure.

> HDF5 has been built and passed tests.  hdf5.h is present.  HDF5 was built:
> ./configure --prefix=${H5DIR} --disable-production --with-zlib=${ZDIR} 
> --disable-netcdf --disable-fortran --enable-cxx && make check install
> 
> Here is how I am attempting to build netcdf
> CPPFLAGS="-I${H5DIR}/include -I${H4DIR}/include -I${ZDIR}/include"
> LDFLAGS="-L${H5DIR}/lib -lhdf5 -lhdf5_hl -L${H4DIR}/lib -ldf -L${ZDIR}/lib 
> -lmfhdf -lz"
> ./configure --prefix=${NCDIR} --enable-hdf4 --with-hdf5=${H5DIR} && make 
> check install

It looks like you built HDF5 as a shared library, so many of the flags used to
build netcdf-4.3.0 are not needed, but I don't immediately see why including
extraneous flags should make hdf5.h not be found.

Here's exactly what worked for me, using a shared library build, with libz 
installed
in /opt/lib:

 1.  I built HDF4 with --disable-netcdf (for reason, see 
     http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/build_hdf4.html ) :
     ./configure --prefix=${H4DIR} --enable-shared --disable-netcdf 
--disable-fortran
     make
     sudo make install

 2.  I built HDF5 with 
     ./configure --prefix=${H5DIR}  # no --enable-shared needed, it's the 
default
     make all check 
     sudo make install

 3.  The netcdf-4.3.0 build was
     CPPFLAGS="-I${H5DIR}/include -I${H4DIR}/include -I/opt/include" \
     LDFLAGS="-L${H5DIR}/lib -L${H4DIR}/lib -L/opt/lib" \
     ./configure --enable-hdf4 --enable-hdf4-file-tests
     make check
     sudo make install

If that doesn't work for you, please send config.log.

--Russ

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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: NYG-547290
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed