Re: [netcdfgroup] Problems Installing netcdf-c-4.9.3

  • To: "Helly, John" <hellyj@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] Problems Installing netcdf-c-4.9.3
  • From: Ted Mansell - NOAA Federal <ted.mansell@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 15:05:16 -0500
I don't know if the 'with-hdf5' flag works. I would instead specify the include 
and lib directories in the CPPFLAGS=-I/pathtoinclude and LDFLAGS=-L/pathtolibs 
variables.

-- Ted

> On Jul 23, 2025, at 6:59 PM, Helly, John <hellyj@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Aloha. 
> 
> I've installed earlier versions of netCDF many, many times but I've been away 
> from it for  a few years (maybe more than a few).
> 
> Anyway, I'm trying to install on OSX 15.5 (Sequoia) on Apple M2 hardware.  
> I've (apparently) successfully installed hdf5-1.14.6 and am not trying to 
> compile NC against it.  But when I run this ...
> 
> 
> CPPFLAGS='-I/Users/hellyj/src/hdf5-1.14.6/Build/include' \
> LDFLAGS='-L/Users/hellyj/src/hdf5-1.14.6/Build/lib'  \
> ./configure --prefix=/Users/hellyj/src/netcdf-c-4.9.3/Build  
> --enable-netcdf-4 --enable-f90  
> --with-hdf5=/Users/hellyj/src/hdf5-1.14.6/Build
> make check install
> 
> This is what happens:
> 
> configure: error: Compiling a test with HDF5 failed.  Either hdf5.h cannot be 
> found, or config.log should be checked for other reason.
> + make check install
> 
> When I look at config.log the only error I find is:
> 
> configure:4531: $? = 0
> configure:4520: gcc -V >&5
> gcc: error: unrecognized command-line option '-V'
> 
> Which seems to be a problem with gcc arguments.  However, not sure how to 
> correct this in the 'configure' script or if it should be happening at all.
> 
> Any advice is very welcome.
> 
> Mahalo
> 
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