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Installation with netcdf capabilities issue
Added by Juan José Gómez Navarro over 13 years ago
Hello, I'm trying to install cdo with netcdf compability in a Mac system. I have installed successfully netcdf (or I hope so), but when I run
>./configure --with-netcdf=../netcdf
I get the error message:
checking netcdf.h usability... yes
checking netcdf.h presence... yes
checking for netcdf.h... yes
checking for library containing nc_open... no
configure: error: Could not link to netcdf library
And the configurtion finishes. Maybe this is not a problem with cdo itself, but in any case maybe someone has had the same problem before...
Any idea is welcome. Thanks.
you have to use the absolute path of your netCDF installation, e.g.:
./configure --with-netcdf=`pwd`/../netcdf
Regards, Uwe
Uwe Schulzweida wrote:
you have to use the absolute path of your netCDF installation, e.g.:
[...]Regards, Uwe
Hello, and thanks for the fast reply. I didn't mention, but I have used both, relative and absolute paths. Nothing changes, there must be something else. I have also tried to install the binaries of the netCDF distribution and I get the same problem, which means the netCDF installation does not seem to be the problem... 
Ok, whats exactly going wrong is reported in the config.log file. Could you please attach this file.
It seems that you have a static build netCDF4 library with OpenDAP support installed. In this case you have to add at least the curl library with LIBS='-lcurl':
./configure --with-netcdf=/.../netcdf LIBS='-lcurl'
Possibly it is necessary to add many more libraries. See
known problem for a more detailed description of this problem.