installing netcdfmodule

[Lutz.Ehrlich@EMBL-Heidelberg.de]

Hi Glen,


make sure you get the latest netCDF module tar.gz file from Konrad. 
URL: http://starship.skyport.net/crew/hinsen/netcdf.html
The current version is 1.03

There should be a 'Setup' file in the respective directory. 
1) Make sure that you fix the line	
	netcdf netcdfmodule.c -lnetcd
to sthg like
 netcdf -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib  netcdfmodule.c -lnetcdf

Replace /usr/local/ with the actual location of the netcdf installation
(/usr/local should be fine if you did the vanilla default install).

2) copy over the Makefile.pre.in from 
	/usr/local/lib/python1.5/config/Makefile.pre.in

3) do a 'make -f Makefile.pre.in boot'

4) do a 'make'

5) Try the thing out with 'python netcdf_demo.py'

6) If 5) works, copy the resulting netcdfmodule.so into your
PYTHONPATH

That should be all. I think Konrad is actually working on a nicer
installation mechanism (hi Konrad ;-) 

Cheers,
	Lutz

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