The NetCDF installations managed by OS package managers (e.g. yum, dpkg) can vary, since the NetCDF build configuration provides a large number of options.

To ensure that we have all of the required support, we need to build HDF5 and NetCDF with support for all common requirements, such as FORTRAN, OPENDAP etc.

Therefore, we have collected here the tar files for HDF5, NetCDF and Udunits to provide a clean build and install. These files are kept up to date as new versions of these packages become available.

And we include a build and install script which will perform the build in the correct manner, using configure, and install the packages in your chosen location.

If you need NetCDF support for LROSE only, you can install in places such as:

$HOME/lrose
/usr/local/lrose (this is the default)

If you need to support NetCDF for other packages, it makes sense to install in

/usr/local 

The tar files are stored in the

tar_files

subdirectory.

• go to the top level directory of this repository.
• run the build_and_install_netcdf script

The script takes a single argument:

build_and_install_netcdf -x target_dir

where target_dir defaults to /usr/local/lrose.