Re: new netcdf packages: first review
By the way, the current working copy is found on alioth,
alioth:/git/pkg-grass/netcdf.git
in the split-c-f-cxx branch.
Cheers,
Nico
On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Nico Schlömer <nico.schloemer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Alastair,
>
> the basis netCDF package is shaping up; a number of patches have been
> submitted upstream and basically we're only waiting for a release now.
>
> Two things that are not (yet) working:
>
> * installation of shared and static libraries (so far shared-only),
> * installation of serial and parallel versions.
>
> In fact, the latter is quite interesting to me since I need parallel
> netCDF for one of my application codes. I'm not sure how what the best
> debian/rules would be to ship them both; maybe you guys can give some
> advice here.
>
> Cheers,
> Nico
>
>
> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Alastair McKinstry
> <alastair.mckinstry@sceal.ie> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Whats the status of the various netcdf4.3 packages?
>>
>> As you may have seen from a previous email, I'm working with Gilles
>> Filiippi on
>> making the HDF5 packages co-installable, which would make it possible to
>> ship both serial and parallel versions of netcdf.
>> I think it would be possible to ship a single MPI copy, depending on
>> hdf5_mpi, rather than a specific MPI flavour, with both hdf5 packages
>> providing this.
>>
>> best regards
>> Alastair
>>
>> On 23/04/2014 16:07, Nico Schlömer wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> as noted earlier, I'm working on moving the long-outdated netCDF
>>> version in Debian <https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/netcdf>.
>>> This is not entirely trivial since upstream as decided to split netcdf
>>> in three separate packages, supporting C (the basis package), Fortran,
>>> and C++.
>>>
>>> I've been working with upstream to get some solid builds on dev/master
>>> and put the result on
>>>
>>> https://github.com/nschloe/debian-netcdfc
>>> https://github.com/nschloe/debian-netcdff
>>> https://github.com/nschloe/debian-netcdfcxx
>>>
>>> As soon as the new version is released (we're not at rc3 I think, so
>>> it should take much longer), I'll put it on alioth.
>>>
>>> For now, please let me know if you spot some obvious mistakes in the builds.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Nico
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> Alastair McKinstry, <alastair@sceal.ie>, <mckinstry@debian.org>, https://diaspora.sceal.ie/u/amckinstry
>> A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
>> ~Samuel Johnson, Boswell: Life of Johnson
>>
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