| check | Build the netCDF libraries and utilities and run all the standard tests. |
| install | Install the libraries and utilities under the directory specified by the --prefix option to configure. |
| all | Build the libraries and utilities, but don't run any testss. |
| clean | Remove everything built by make all. |
| distclean | Remove everything done by configure and make. This returns to a clean set of source code, as if you had just unpacked the distribution. |