Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdf-4.2-rc2 release candidate available

• To: Ansley Manke <ansley.b.manke@xxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdf-4.2-rc2 release candidate available
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:47:52 -0600

Hi Ansley,

> Wondering about the requirement for curl version 7+ for netCDF4.2.  On 
> RedHat systems, rhel6 has libcurl.so.4 installed, and that library 
> depends on a number of other libraries, which I imagine would need 
> higher versions than what's on rhel6.  Our software that links with 
> netcdf therefore may need a whole cascade of upgraded libraries.
> 
> NetCDF4.2 does build and appears to work correctly, with the calls that 
> we make use of, linking with libcurl.so.4 and the associated libraries, 
> and with the libcurl.so.3 that's on on rhel5 systems.

Note that the "4" in libcurl.so.4 is not the version number of the
library.  You can find out the libcurl version number by invoking

  curl-config --version libcurl 

On my system, this returns "7.21.0" even though the library is named 
"libcurl.so.4".

For more information of the number after "so" in library names, check

  tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html

--Russ

• References:
  • [netcdfgroup] netcdf-4.2-rc2 release candidate available
    • From: Russ Rew
  • Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdf-4.2-rc2 release candidate available
    • From: Dave Allured
  • Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdf-4.2-rc2 release candidate available
    • From: Dave Allured
  • Re: [netcdfgroup] netcdf-4.2-rc2 release candidate available
    • From: Ansley Manke