[netcdfgroup] Building netCDF 4.3.1-rc1 with parallel I/O support fails

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Building netCDF 4.3.1-rc1 with parallel I/O support fails
• From: Stefan Mauerberger <stefan.mauerberger@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 15:21:21 +0200

Hello there, 

first of all, building serial netCDF on Ubuntu 12.10 works fine.
Therefore I installed the packages libhdf5-dev and libhdf5-7 1.8.8-9.
All tests pass through. 

Well, in INSTALL.cmake lines 72 and 90 are wrong. They should better
read as
    cmake ./ -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/local ... 
instead of 
    ./cmake 
In addition between lines 72-73 and 90-91 a 'make' is missing. 

In contrast to serial netCDF, I can not build netCDF with parallel I/O
support. Both CMake and ./configure complain that there is no hdf5.h
header file. 

Let me explain first what I have done so far. The packages libhdf5-dev
and libhdf5-7 got replaced by there MPI counterparts. That are
libhdf5-openmpi-dev and libhdf5-openmpi-7 also version 1.8.8-9. 
After that I tried to run 
    CC=mpicc.openmpi cmake . -DENABLE_PARALLEL=ON
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$HOME/local/
Unfortunately the output is: 
> ....
> -- Found CURL: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurl.so (found version
> "7.27.0") 
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:572 (CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS):
>   CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS Macro invoked with incorrect arguments for
> macro
>   named: CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS
> 
> 
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:576 (CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS):
>   CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS Macro invoked with incorrect arguments for
> macro
>   named: CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS
> 
> 
> -- Cannot find HDF5 library built with parallel support. Disabling
> parallel build.
> -- Looking for math.h
> -- Looking for math.h - found
> ....
Well, HDF5 with parallel IO support is installed. Why doesn't cmake
(2.8.9) as well as the configure script find it? Any ideas?

Actually, there is again a mistake in the INSTALL.cmake. Line 119 by
accident has '..' instead of './'.  In addition the 'make' command is
missing between lines 119 and 120. 

Cheers and thanks in advance, 
Stefan 


Btw. I previously built netCDF 4.2.1.1 successfully on precisely that
environment and machine. 

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