From a9a247ce36f451c944210aecba5a4c331fe54115 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russ Rew Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 19:29:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update installation instructions to 4.2-rc2 --- man4/install.doc | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/man4/install.doc b/man4/install.doc index ea1799f53..e6da4a6c1 100644 --- a/man4/install.doc +++ b/man4/install.doc @@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ full functionality. (See \ref architecture). The usual way of building netCDF requires the HDF5, zlib, and curl libraries. (And, optionally, the szlib library). -Get the HDF5 1.8.7 release. You must also have the zlib compression -library, version 1.2.5. Both of these packages are available from the +Get the HDF5 1.8.8 release. You must also have the zlib compression +library, version 1.2.5 or later. Both of these packages are available from the netCDF-4 ftp site. @@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ the build doesn't work (perhaps because of something subtly misconfigured on the target machine). If one of these libraries is not working, netCDF will have serious problems. +Note that for building netCDF, it is not necessary to build the HDF5 +Fortran, C++, or Java API's. Only the HDF5 C library is used. + Optionally, you can also build netCDF-4 with the szip 2.0 library (a.k.a. szlib). NetCDF cannot create szipped data files, but can read HDF5 data files that have used szip. @@ -174,7 +177,7 @@ netCDF, HDF5, zlib, and (if used with HDF5 build) szip. This will mean (lower-case L) for the names of the libraries. For example, one user reports that she can build other applications -with netCDF-4 by setting the LIBS envoronment variable: +with netCDF-4 by setting the LIBS environment variable: LIBS='-L/X/netcdf-4.0/lib -lnetcdf -L/X/hdf5-1.8.6/lib -lhdf5_hl -lhdf5 -lz -lm -L/X/szip-2.1/lib -lsz'