Hello,
We've had a lively discussion over at Spack on how best to build
netcdf-fortran with an auto-builder such as Spack (which are the future; I
noticed that building just NetCDF now involves 7 dependencies).
https://github.com/LLNL/spack/pull/466
The two points of view are:
a) Use ./configure --enable-remote-fortran-bootstrap to build the C and
Fortran libraries from the plain netcdf Spack package.
b) Build one Spack package for netcdf, and another for netcdf-fortran.
Questions:
*) Would anyone here care to comment on that issue?
*) I noticed that NetCDF has adopted CMake. Is there a sense of migration
away from Autotools?
*) If so, are there plans to support --enable-remote-fortran-bootstrap in
CMake?
*) Why is --enable-remote-fortran-bootstrap provided for Fortran, but not
C++
Thank you,
-- Elizabeth
