Christian,

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Christian Soeller
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Puneet,
>
> Have you tried fink or macports?

I haven't tried either fink or macports, and usually I am able to
install most software with the pretty standard 'configure, make, make
install' and perhaps even a little bit of jigging and poking. PDL is
quite easy as well, except, some of its dependencies which are beastly
difficult or impossible on a Mac (HDF5, PLplot, PGPlot, come to mind).

That said, this NetCDF business was particularly vexing. I think I
might have had some hand in it as well. I upgraded Mac OS X from 10.5
to 10.6, and also decided to upgrade Perl from 5.10 to 5.12.1. I
think, in the process, I ended up with two netcdf installs, and the
previous one, the one remaining over from the 32-bit days, kept on
getting picked up by PDL-NetCDF. I got rid of all the old detritus,
and was able to install PDL-NetCDF correctly.

So, there was my own error, but that doesn't explain nor excuse the
ridiculousness of failing because I don't have a proper TeX
installation. Also, I had to disable both HDF5 and Fortran via
configure.

Now I have PDL-NetCDF working, and it is adequate enough to read and
extract values from the netcdf data files I have. All I want to do is
get the data out and insert them into a database, and then, hopefully,
I won't have to deal with NetCDF for a very, very long time.


> These should provide the ideal
> infrastructure to get such packages working. Fink lists a source package for
> 10.6/x86_64 and with a bit of luck that should build ok.
>
> I have used these in the past for a number of dependencies (netcdf, libtiff,
> dx, etc) and they were generally ok. Will try soon with a new i7 MBP once I
> receive it.
>
> Christian
>
>>
>> So, the question is -- how do I build libnetcdf with 64-bit support on
>> Mac OS X 10.6.3?
>
>



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