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[netCDF #ENG-687406]: can't install netcdf on os x mavericks

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  • Subject: [netCDF #ENG-687406]: can't install netcdf on os x mavericks
  • Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 05:44:40 -0600
> I also tried setenv CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/include
> and setenv LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib
> with the same unhappy results.
> 
> I should have mentioned that earlier.  Sorry.

The config.log you sent doesn't show that CPPFLAGS or LDFLAGS were successfully 
set.
There is a section at the end of config.log listing all the environment 
variables that
the configure script can see, and it includes

   ## ----------------- ##
   ## Output variables. ##
   ## ----------------- ##
      ...
   CPPFLAGS=''
      ...
   LDFLAGS=''

I'm not sure why your setting these variables in tcsh isn't working for the 
configure 
script, but that's why the installed HDF5 library isn't being found.

One possibility is that you're running the configure script as the root user, 
perhaps
with "sudo", which would not inherit some environment variable settings made as
a non-root user.  This used to be in the netCDF C installation instructions, 
but it seems
to have been omitted in the current documentation.  Similar instructions are in 
the
netCDF-Fortran installation documentation:

     If you set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH) environment variable 
[...], 
     don't use the "sudo" command before the following "configure" or "make 
check" 
     commands. Using "sudo" causes the LD_* environment variables to be 
ignored, as a 
     security precaution. You can use "sudo make install" as the last step, but 
you 
     shouldn't need to use "sudo" before that.

-Russ


> address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > I wrote:
> > > Try instead
> > >
> > > setenv CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/include
> > > setenv LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib
> > >
> > > That should work, followed by "make check" and "sudo make install".
> >
> > but of course you still need to run
> >
> >     ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> >
> > before running "make check; sudo make install" or just "make check
> > install" if
> > you set --prefix=... a directory that you have permission to write.
> >
> > --Russ
> >
> >
> > Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
> > address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
> >
> >
> >
> > Ticket Details
> > ===================
> > Ticket ID: ENG-687406
> > Department: Support netCDF
> > Priority: Normal
> > Status: Closed
> >
> >
> 
> 
> --
> Grace Peng, PhD
> Atmospheric & Geoscience Research Data Archive
> Computational & Information Systems Laboratory
> National Center for Atmospheric Research
> 303-497-1218
> 
> 
Russ Rew                                         UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden                      http://www.unidata.ucar.edu



Ticket Details
===================
Ticket ID: ENG-687406
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed