Please help comment on hdf/netcdf compatability
Orion Poplawski
orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed Feb 8 22:55:32 UTC 2006
Ed Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:55 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> I maintain hdf 4.2r1 in FE. I'm running into an issue with
>> compatibility with netcdf. By default, hdf provides the netcdf api as
>> well, unless compiled with -DHAVE_NETCDF.
>>
>> I also maintain gdl, which can be linked against both hdf and netcdf,
>> but I get complaints. I don't know if gdl can use the netcdf API in the
>> hdf library or not - looking into it (if you know, tell me!).
>>
>> Those of you who use both, what would you like to see?
>
> Hi Orion,
>
> I don't have an opinion here since I rarely use hdf4 and have yet to try
> gdl (although it sounds cool and useful--just haven't had enough spare
> time to examine it!). In any case, if there is anything that I can do
> to help (eg. with the netcdf package) please let me know.
>
> Ed
>
After looking at the GDL docs some more, it looks like I'm going to need
to compile HDF with -DHAVE_NETCDF in order for GDL to link to both
netcdf and hdf. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
--
Orion Poplawski
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