Please help comment on hdf/netcdf compatability

[Orion Poplawski]

Ed Hill wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:55 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> I maintain hdf 4.2r1 in FE.  I'm running into an issue with 
>> compatibility with netcdf.  By default, hdf provides the netcdf api as 
>> well, unless compiled with -DHAVE_NETCDF.
>>
>> I also maintain gdl, which can be linked against both hdf and netcdf, 
>> but I get complaints.  I don't know if gdl can use the netcdf API in the 
>> hdf library or not - looking into it (if you know, tell me!).
>>
>> Those of you who use both, what would you like to see?
> 
> Hi Orion,
> 
> I don't have an opinion here since I rarely use hdf4 and have yet to try
> gdl (although it sounds cool and useful--just haven't had enough spare
> time to examine it!).  In any case, if there is anything that I can do
> to help (eg. with the netcdf package) please let me know.
> 
> Ed
> 

After looking at the GDL docs some more, it looks like I'm going to need 
to compile HDF with -DHAVE_NETCDF in order for GDL to link to both 
netcdf and hdf.  Hopefully this won't cause other problems.


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