[ncl-install] Status of NCL under MacOS 10.6 (64-bit)

[Mary Haley]

Hi folks,

I've been working offline with Guangshan Chen who attempted to build  
NCL V5.1.1 on a 64-bit Mac OS 10.6 (snow leopard) system.

Unfortunately, there was a problem building the HDF4 library, and the  
HDF folks do not have a fix yet.  Guangshan contacted them and they  
responded that they will be getting such a system soon and hope to  
get it working.

Until this happens, building NCL from source code will not be  
possible, because HDF4 is not an optional package.

You should still be able to run a precompiled binary built under Mac  
OS 10.5. This will be a 32-bit binary, however.  If you need to run  
WRAPIT, you will need to make a change to it so it uses the 32-bit  
compiler.

Guangshan provided a fix, see:  http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/ 
install_archives/2009/0295.html

--Mary


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