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The Common Data Access toolset
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Does CODA still use the HDF4 netCDF API, and in which case? #16

Closed tdanckaert closed 8 years ago

tdanckaert commented 8 years ago

Hi,

the INSTALL document states:

  • If you want to use the HDF4 features of CODA then you will need to have a recent version of HDF4 installed (for building the source package on Windows you will need to have version 4.2.11 of HDF). You will also need the additional required libraries libjpeg, szlib, and zlib. On some UNIX systems you can install HDF4 via the package manager on your system. Make sure that this package also installs the netcdf.h include file on your system. If this is not the case you will also have to install the netcdf package on your system.

Is the part about netcdf.h still up to date? I have installed coda using --with-hdf4, but linking against a HDF4 library that does not contain netcdf.h (HDF4 configured with --disable-netcdf), in an environment without netCDF package. Still, it seems to work (I could open an HDF4 file and read the names of some groups in the file).

svniemeijer commented 8 years ago

That comment is indeed no longer applicable. We will rephrase this section and remove the requirement on needing netcdf.h