[netCDF #PRR-729955]: netcdf fortran libraries

Chris,

> Thanks again,
> 
> That looks like it's worked. I've installed the newer HDF libraries and 
> netcdf-c has been successfully installed. The synaptic package installer was 
> installing the older version.
> 
> I've tried now installing netcdf-c++ and received a successful installation 
> message as before, though when I tried to install another program (Magics++) 
> it warned me that  netcdfcpp.h was not found and subsequently the 
> installation failed. I looked manually in my installation directory (based in 
> /usr/local) and likewise could not find the libraries. The trouble is, I'm 
> not sure if this is aa netcdf or a magics++ issue

Did you install the "netCDF legacy C++" library or the different 
netcdf-cxx4-4.2 library?
I suspect you installed the latter, but Magics++ depends on the former.

We've recently added to the confusion by moving our source repositories to 
GitHub, but
the legacy C++ package seems to have slipped through the cracks when that 
happened.
We're looking at fixing that, but for now, here's the netCDF legacy C++ sources 
from
which you should build and install the library that Magics++ needs:

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-cxx-4.2.tar.gz

--Russ

> 
> cheers
> 
> Chris
> 
> Christopher Steele,
> School of Environmental Sciences
> University of East Anglia
> Norwich
> ________________________________________
> From: Unidata netCDF Support [address@hidden]
> Sent: 26 August 2013 20:18
> To: Christopher Steele (SCI)
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [netCDF #PRR-729955]: netcdf fortran libraries
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> > Thanks again. That's now worked.
> >
> > Just one final thing. A couple of my programs require netcdf-4 to be 
> > enabled. I've installed HDF5 libraries and attempted to re-compile nedcdf-c 
> > but a couple of the tests fail. I've attached the test_suite.log and the 
> > configure.log files to have a look at. Otherwise, without Netcdf-4 enabled, 
> > the installation runs smoothly.
> 
> I suspect the test failures are due to your using an old version of HDF5 
> (1.8.4-patch1, Feb 2010),
> because we don't see the errors you are seeing when we link against 
> HDF5-1.8.11.  If it's
> convenient, could you build netCDF-4.3.1-rc2 (or later) again, after 
> installing a more recent
> version of the HDF5 libraries?
> 
> --Russ
> 
> > From: Unidata netCDF Support [address@hidden]
> > Sent: 23 August 2013 16:36
> > To: Christopher Steele (SCI)
> > Subject: [netCDF #PRR-729955]: netcdf fortran libraries
> >
> > Hi Christopher,
> >
> > Thank you for reporting the issue; I see now that in the migration from
> > subversion to github, 'empty' directories were not preserved.  I will
> > fix that as well.  You should be able to create an empty m4 directory
> > and autoreconf should work.  m4 is a target directory which the
> > autotools use to store various scripts, so you aren't missing anything
> > except the directory.
> >
> > Sorry for the inconvenience,
> >
> > -Ward
> >
> > On 8/23/13 3:38 AM, Christopher Steele (SCI) wrote:
> > > New Client Reply: netcdf fortran libraries
> > >
> > > Hi Ward,
> > >
> > > Thanks for that. Yes, I downloaded the libraries from github and have 
> > > attempted to use 'autoreconf -i -f' to generate the configure script. 
> > > However, it appears that the 'm4' directory is not present in the tar 
> > > bundle either and the build falls over.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > $ autoreconf -i -f
> > > aclocal: couldn't open directory `m4': No such file or directory
> > > autoreconf: aclocal failed with exit status: 1
> > >
> > > regards
> > >
> > > Christopher Steele
> > > School of Environmental Sciences
> > > University of East Anglia
> > > Norwich
> > > ________________________________________
> > > From: Unidata netCDF Support [address@hidden]
> > > Sent: 20 August 2013 21:40
> > > To: Christopher Steele (SCI)
> > > Subject: [netCDF #PRR-729955]: netcdf fortran libraries
> > >
> > > Hi Christopher,
> > >
> > > Assuming you have downloaded the libraries from the github repository,
> > > you will need to run 'autoreconf -i -f' in the root fortran directory to
> > > generate the configure script.  Our apologies for the inconvenience;
> > > this was fixed yesterday for the C library (in release candidate 2) and
> > > will be corrected in the Fortran repository in the near future.
> > >
> > > -Ward
> > >
> > > On 8/20/13 2:08 PM, Christopher Steele (SCI) wrote:
> > >> New Ticket: netcdf fortran libraries
> > >>
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I'm trying to add the netcdf fortran libraries to my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
> > >> (32-bit) machine but I'm also relatively inexperienced in compiling
> > >> software. I have installed both sets of libraries (C and fortran)
> > >> in the past on an older machine but I'm hitting problems with this
> > >> one. In the tar download, as far as I understand it, there should be a
> > >> configure executable but I can't find it in either of the two sets of
> > >> netcdf libraries. I've managed to find it in a C tar download of the
> > >> same version and have successfully installed it, but I can't find it
> > >> in the Fortran version. Is there something that's different that I've
> > >> overlooked to generate the configure executable?
> > >>
> > >> cheers
> > >>
> > >> Christopher Steele,
> > >> School of Environmental Sciences
> > >> University of East Anglia
> > >> Norwich
> > >>
> > >>
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> > >
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> >
> Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
> address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> 

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



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: PRR-729955
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed