Hello, On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 22:36, Igor Khavkine wrote: > On 1/4/06, Juan Antonio Añel Cabanelas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I opened an ITP for Gnudatalaguage (GDL could be confusing in Debian > > because it is similar to "Gnome Development Library") 9 months ago. > > > > It exist some problems with libraries, GDL is a complex package, but a > > friend of mine and my sponsor, DD, has packaged a GDL version with > > without support for HDF files and it is not tested. > > Let me take a guess at why HDF support was turned off. I just tried > compiling the latest release of GDL (0.8.11) and ran into a problem. > The problem has to do with the netcdf.h header file. In Debian, it can > be found in two packages: > > libhdf4g-dev: usr/include/hdf/netcdf.h > netcdfg-dev: usr/include/netcdf.h > > When all the features are turned on, GDL wants both the HDF4 and > NetCDF libraries to be available. The header file it really wants is > from the netcdfg-dev package. However, if HDF4 support is turned on, > the -I/usr/include/hdf gets passed to gcc. Hence, the header file from > libhdf4g-dev will always take priority over the other one, since > netcdfg-dev puts it into the standard include path. >
I think there should be found a solution which allows both. As far as I know, the best would be to use HDF5 and perhaps combined with netCDF-4 project to get he benefit of both. Campatibility and simplicity from CDF and the rich data model from HDF5. > The two easiest solutions to this problem is to either replace every > instance of <netcdf.h> in GDL by "/usr/include/netcdf.h" (after which > everything compiles fine) or to hack the Makefiles to remove the HDF > directory from the include path for the few source files that cause > problems. However, given that there is at least one application that > encounters this problem, does it make sense to try to fix this at the > level of the packaging of netcdfg-dev? For instance, GDL itself tries > to look for NetCDF headers in /usr/include/netcdf-3. > That would result in a loss to use the improved data functionality of HDF5. > Note, I don't use IDL or GDL myself, but I do know some people who > might be interested GDL depending on how usable it is. > > Igor > > Kind Regards, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
