Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdf 4.3.0 and netcdf fortran installation

  • To: Nick Papior Andersen <nickpapior@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdf 4.3.0 and netcdf fortran installation
  • From: Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:42:06 -0700
Thanks.  That may be so (the use of auotconf and automake), but since this is 
where the main link  now takes you and it is not consistent with the install 
instructions, it can leave people bewildered.

I imagine it will get straightened out, in the meantime if he goes to the links 
I sent there are files that will work per the instructions.

-Roy


On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:39 PM, Nick Papior Andersen <nickpapior@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I believe that the general approach for many GitHub projects is that one have 
> to use automake, autoconf etc. to configure the configure script as that is 
> apt to change frequently.
> Only when releases are made publicly available will the configure script be 
> generated and shipped. So unless they plan to update the configure script 
> frequently in their repo I think it is on purpose.
> 
> Kind regards Nick
> 
> 
> 2013/8/21 Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>
> It looks like there is a mistake in their Github repository.  Until a more 
> official response comes, you might try:
> 
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/netcdf-fortran/index.jsp
> 
> I have been using the Fortran-4.4-beta1 release recently, because if your 
> gfortran is of a late enough version to use I believe it is the Fortran2003 C 
> bindings, as it seems to simplify the compilation process.
> 
> -Roy
> 
> 
> On Aug 20, 2013, at 8:54 PM, c00jsh00@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > After installed netcdf 4.3.0, I tried to install netcdf-fortran 4.2.
> > I followed the instruction of this page
> >
> > http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/docs/netcdf-fortran-install.html
> >
> > However, there is no file configure in the netcdf-fortran directory:
> >
> > chem@alps5:/work/chem/netcdf-fortran-netcdf-fortran-4.2> ls -al
> > total 84
> > drwxr-xr-x  7 chem chem12  4096 2013-08-21 11:52 .
> > drwxrwxrwx 18 chem chem12  4096 2013-08-21 11:43 ..
> > -rw-r--r--  1 chem chem12 18621 2012-02-29 06:03 acinclude.m4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 chem chem12 15859 2012-02-29 06:03 configure.ac
> > -rw-r--r--  1 chem chem12  2053 2012-02-29 06:03 COPYRIGHT
> > drwxr-xr-x  4 chem chem12  4096 2012-02-29 06:03 examples
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 chem chem12  4096 2012-02-29 06:03 f90
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 chem chem12  4096 2012-02-29 06:03 fortran
> > -rw-r--r--  1 chem chem12  3369 2012-02-29 06:03 Makefile.am
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 chem chem12  4096 2012-02-29 06:03 man4
> > -rw-r--r--  1 chem chem12   315 2012-02-29 06:03 netcdf-fortran.pc.in
> > -rw-r--r--  1 chem chem12  3041 2012-02-29 06:03 nf-config.in
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 chem chem12  4096 2012-02-29 06:03 nf_test
> > -rw-r--r--  1 chem chem12  3317 2012-02-29 06:03 README
> >
> > and cannot continue. Am I missing something?  Any suggestion is appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Jyh-Shyong Ho, Ph.D.
> > Research Scientist
> > National Center for High Performance Computing
> > Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC
> >
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NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097

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"From those who have been given much, much will be expected" 
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