[netCDF #YHW-805750]: error installing wgrib2

Heather,

> In the main grib2 directory that the tarball unpacked, I do not see a build 
> directory config.log file. I did a grep and there's a config.log file only in 
> grib2/jasper-1.900.1 and grib2/netcdf-3.6.3...I assume the second is the one 
> you need so that one is attached. If not, let me know. 

The config.log looks good, and indicates you're using an i686 architecture,
which is 32-bit.  The netCDF library can be compiled and built OK on 32-bit
architectures, but it looks like there is something wrong with the WGRIB2
build system for 32-bit architectures, as they report in this file:

  ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wd51we/wgrib2/README.netcdf3

where it says to get wgrib2 on a 32-bit architecture, you'll need to use
netCDF-4.

You can get netCDF-4 from here:

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.gz

and build it separately, before building wgrib2.  It looks like you want
to configure with

  ./configure --disable-netcdf-4

using whatever prefix you want as the root of the installation (but not the
same as the source directory!).  You can also use --disable-dap if you have 
no use for access to data on remote OPeNDAP servers (or THREDDS servers).
Here's more details:

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

> The "make check" output is below:
> 
> vagrant@precise32:~/grib2$ make check
> make: *** No rule to make target `check'.  Stop.
> 
> I hope it means something to you because it does not look very helpful to me 
> :)

I should have specified the "make check" output run from the netcdf/ top-level 
source directory, which would have produced the "nc_test" error you saw.  But
there's no need for it now, since wgrib2 apparently can't build netCDF-3 
correctly on 32-bit platforms, according to the wgrib2/README.netcdf3 document
referenced above.

If building from source still leads to problems, I notice there are pre-built
versions of netCDF libraries available from Ubuntu package repositories, found
by Googling for

  ubuntu netcdf-3

--Russ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Unidata netCDF Support [mailto:address@hidden]
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2013 2:19 PM
> To: Cronk,Heather
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: [netCDF #YHW-805750]: error installing wgrib2
> 
> Hi Heather,
> 
> > I am installing the wgrib2 package using the default configuration 
> > directions located here:
> >
> > ftp://ftp.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/wd51we/wgrib2/INSTALLING
> >
> > During the installation, 1 out of the 5 tests failed. The test that
> > failed is called "nc_test" and there were 70 failures during the test.
> > The wgrib2 utility does not work currently and I assume (hope) this
> > test failure is the reason. If someone could please help me
> > troubleshoot the issue, I would appreciate it.
> 
> Sure, please send us some details of the netCDF build, including: the 
> "config.log" file from the top-level build directory and the output from 
> "make check".
> 
> --Russ
> 
> 
> 
> Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
> address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
> 
> 
> 
> Ticket Details
> ===================
> Ticket ID: YHW-805750
> Department: Support netCDF
> Priority: Normal
> Status: Closed
> 
> 
Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: YHW-805750
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed