[Kst] creating a new datasource reader

[George Staikos]

On Wednesday 16 March 2005 10:22, Brisset, Nicolas wrote:
> > > Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong, and what this error
> >
> > message means?
> >
> >    It probably means that you don't have the CDF libraries
> > installed, or they were not found by Kst.  If you run
> > ./configure --help you will see some Kst options.  One of them is:
> >
> >   --with-cdf=DIR          where the root of CDF is installed
>
> George, CDF and netCDF are different libraries even though the names are
> similar ! netCDf is the extra datasource I sent you recently, I believe
> you only need to add the following lines to autoconf.in (just after the
> corresponding cdf lines):

  Oops!!  I thought they used the same library.  Ok I'll fix it up.

> # netCDF Test
> ac_cdf_includes=""
> ac_cdf_libraries=""
> AC_ARG_WITH(netcdf,
>     AC_HELP_STRING([--with-netcdf=DIR],[where the root of netCDF is
> installed ]),
>     [  ac_cdf_includes="-I$withval/include"
>        ac_cdf_libraries="-L$withval/lib"
>     ])
>
> all_includes_save="$all_includes"
> all_includes="$all_includes $ac_netcdf_includes"
> KDE_CHECK_HEADER(netcdfcpp.h, AC_DEFINE(HAVE_NETCDF_H, 1, [If we have
> netCDF headers]) have_netcdf_h=yes NETCDFINCLUDES="$ac_netcdf_includes",
> , )
> all_includes="$all_includes_save"
>
> ldflags_save="$LDFLAGS"
> LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS $ac_cdf_libraries"
> KDE_CHECK_LIB(netcdf, nc_open, NETCDFLIBS="$ac_cdf_libraries -lnetcdf
> $CDFLIBS", , )
> LDFLAGS="$ldflags_save"
>
> if test $ac_cv_lib_netcdf_netCDFlib = yes; then
>   if test $have_netcdf_h = yes; then
>     AC_SUBST(NETCDFLIBS)
>     AC_SUBST(NETCDFINCLUDES)
>     AC_DEFINE(KST_HAVE_NETCDF, 1, [If we have the netCDF libraries.])
>   fi
> fi
>
> AM_CONDITIONAL(include_netcdf, test -n "$NETCDFLIBS")
>
> There may still be some hitches, but if you commit this (and regenerate
> configure ?) we'll at least be close to a working configure...

  I'll work on it.  Where do I download netCDF?

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