[ncl-install] NCL Source Install Document Misprint?

[Mary Haley]

Hi David,

Sorry for the confusion. This should read "HDF-EOS 5" and not "GDAL". I'll fix this shortly.

Meanwhile, were you able to get HDF-EOS 5 built? Sometimes if I have problems with the below method,
I try using the "bin/INSTALL_HDFEOS" method. 

You run this script:

    bin/INSTALL_HDFEOS

and answer some questions about where your HDF5 and SZIP libraries and include files reside.
From there it will try to do the build based on your environment settings (if any) for CFLAGS, CC, CPPFLAGS, etc.

--Mary

On May 20, 2010, at 9:25 PM, Huber, David wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm working through the "How to build NCL and NCAR Graphics from source code" document on the website, and I noticed something peculiar.  Under the section "HDF-EOS 5 software" there is a step stating:
> 
> 
>     Once you have the GDAL source code, you can build and install it with:
> 
>       ./configure --with-hdf5=/usr/local --with-zlib=/usr/local --with-szlib=/usr/local --prefix=/usr/local
>        make all install
> 
> 
> Since this section is not for GDAL, I thought it odd that I should be compiling GDAL, so I assume this is actually supposed to read "Once you have the hdf5-eos source code..."
> 
> However, following these instructions, I am unable to compile hdf-eos.  Ironically, the only other supporting package I was unable to compile was GDAL!  Can someone please clarify this for me?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> DH
> 
> 
> 
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