Ah, ok, I assumed he had taken it directly from the repo at Github. :)
Kind regards Nick
2013/8/21 Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal <roy.mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx>
> 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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> Roy Mendelssohn
> Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
> NOAA/NMFS
> Environmental Research Division
> Southwest Fisheries Science Center
> 1352 Lighthouse Avenue
> Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097
>
> e-mail: Roy.Mendelssohn@xxxxxxxx (Note new e-mail address)
> voice: (831)-648-9029
> fax: (831)-648-8440
> www: http://www.pfeg.noaa.gov/
>
> "Old age and treachery will overcome youth and skill."
> "From those who have been given much, much will be expected"
> "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice" -MLK
> Jr.
>
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