ncf-c version error

[VictorEijkhout]

The message netcdf-c version 4.7.4 or greater is required appears while I have version 4.9.2 loaded.

This message actually seems to come from

CHECK_LIBRARY_EXISTS(${NETCDF_C_LIBRARY} nc_def_var_szip "" HAVE_DEF_VAR_SZIP)
if (NOT HAVE_DEF_VAR_SZIP)
  message(FATAL_ERROR "netcdf-c version 4.7.4 or greater is required")
endif()

which I interpret as szip not having been installed, which actually means that hdf5 is not installed with szip.

If my interpretation is correct, this error message could be substantially improved. If my interpretation is not correct, please explain.

[jshn9515]

Probably you can look at this issue: #299

[scotty110]

Were you able to solve this issue building hdf5 with SZIP support? I am getting the same error, and the linked issue did not solve my problems.

[mredenti]

@scotty110 Did you solve the issue, I have the same problem

[Xenotech81]

This breaks the build in case the totally optional SZIP support was not included in HDF5 build. Bummer that this check (if (NOT HAVE_DEF_VAR_SZIP)) was introduced during a minor update of NetCDF4-fortran to 4.5.3 , downgrading NetCDF4-fortran to 4.5.2 might avoid this problem (yet, there is another issue #212)

Ok sorry, this way is blocked by #203 , which I get also for gfortran 11.4.0

If you need the newest versions, I have not tried it, but this post has installation instructions for the full chain SZIP, HDF5, NetCDF4-C, NetCDF4-fortran.