Hello NIck, Thank you very much for this!
A question: it could be possible to share this info in the (non official) SIESTA Facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1482411542018575/)? []'s, Camps On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Nick Papior <nickpap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear list, > > Several have asked questions about installation of NetCDF4 successfully. > > If you simply download NetCDF and install it using configure without any > flags you will only get support for CDF-3. > Although you have downloaded NetCDF-4.4.1 it will NOT intrinsically > install NetCDF with CDF-4 support. I know this is very confusing, and it is > indeed very unfortunate. > To further complicate the issue, SIESTA requires the Fortran library which > requires a second installation. > > To ease the use of the NetCDF features I have created a script which > should install NetCDF (source version: 4.4.0) with full CDF4 support. > The script has been tested on Debian. > > All you need to do is download these sources to your installation > directory: > http://zlib.net/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz > https://support.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/releases/hdf5-1.8.16/ > src/hdf5-1.8.16.tar.bz2 > https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/archive/v4.4.0.tar.gz > https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-fortran/archive/v4.4.3.tar.gz > > Also download the attached install.sh script to your installation > directory. > > The installation script will NOT install the parallel version, but you > should be able to adapt the script accordingly if you really want this > feature enabled. > > Please run through the script and read the comments to ensure that it will > do as you requested. > I will probably not be able to help you change the script to your liking, > but feel free to post any changes that adhere to different compilers etc. > > Once you have edited the script and read the comments, you may run the > script: > $> bash ./install.sh > > and it will install, first zlib, then hdf5, then netcdf-c and lastly, > netcdf-fortran. > > -- > Kind regards Nick >
