William Kyngesburye of http://www.kyngchaos.com/ did provide me with
this solution to the compilation of netcdf as an universal library. I
post it here for reference for others who might want to do a similar
thing:
Most packages I build ppc/intel separately, then merge with lipo, to
deal with endian issues, and libtool quirks. I usually do a bit of
patching to make it go smoothly.
netcdf is one such split build. Assuming you're using a PPC Mac,
configure and build the PPC version. Duplicate the source folder to
retain the same configuration. make clean the copy.
Edit libsrc/ncconfig.h and find where it defines WORDS_BIGENDIAN -
delete that line. Edit macros.make: add $(CCFLAGS) to both the
CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS lines.
In the Terminal:
$ export SDKROOT=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk
$ export CCFLAGS="-arch i386 -isysroot $SDKROOT"
and make your intel copy. Then use lipo to merge the two together.
