[ncl-install] Problems build ncl 6.4.0 on Archlinux

[David Brown]

That's great. Thanks for your work in making the complete NCL tool
available on ArchLinux.
 -dave


On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 11:19 PM, Xavier Corredor Llano
<xcorredorl at unal.edu.co> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 17 May 2017 16:44:51 -05 David Brown wrote:
>> Hi Xavier,
>>
>> I am not sure why you are having a problem with the HDF-EOS2 library
>> because it depends only on HDF4. It has no dependencies on HDF5.
>> However, regarding HDF-EOS5, it needs some source code patches in
>> order to compile with HDF5 1.10.1. I managed to build it yesterday. I
>> created a diff file that documents the changes I made. I do not think
>> it is in a format that you could use to patch the source
>> automatically, although maybe it would work. Anyway I am attaching it
>> in case you want to try to add the HDF-EOS5 library to your NCL
>> package for Arch-Linux.
>>  -dave
>
> Thanks a lot David, the patch work perfect, attached you found the same patch
> but converted (for build HDF-EOS5 with hdf5 1.10.x). And yes, I had only have
> compiles problems with hdf-eos5, with this patch, I enabled again the hdf-eos
> 2 and 5 in ncl archLinux package.
>
> Thanks, regards
>
> Xavier Corredor Ll.