[netcdfgroup] Error "Can't find or link to the hdf5 library". Almost crazy! Help!

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Error "Can't find or link to the hdf5 library". Almost crazy! Help!
• From: Ming Tu <tuming90@xxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 01:16:39 -0700

Hi everyone,

I want to use a software which depends on netCDF. My OS is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
and gcc version is 4.9.2

I first downloaded HDF and built it following
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/cmakebuild.html. The commands I used
were:
ctest -S HDF518LinuxCMake.cmake -C Release -VV -O hdf5.log
All tests passed.
Then I went to HDF5-1.8/build directory and ran bash HDF5-1.8.15-Linux.sh.
Then I had a directory HDF5-1.8.15-Linux. I copied the bin, lib, include
and share folders to /home/ming/local.

After that, I started to build netCDF. The commands were:
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ming/local
export CPPFLAGS=-I/home/ming/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/home/ming/local/lib
./configure --prefix=/home/ming/local
But it failed, giving the error
checking for library containing H5Fflush... no
configure: error: Can't find or link to the hdf5 library. Use
--disable-netcdf-4, or see config.log for errors.

I searched the Internet and had spent several hours on this problem. I
still have no answer now. Hope someone could help me! I appreciate it very
much!

Ming,

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