[petsc-dev] ExodusII + Cmake Doesn't Find PnetCDF/NetCDF

[Satish Balay]

If your complicated setup doesn't work - reset to a simple setup and see if that works [with a clean build]

Satish

On Fri, 22 May 2020, Jacob Faibussowitsch wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> I ran a ./reconfigure —with-clean to update older packages/clean install however I ran into some issues. My arch (lets call it debug-arch) configuration isn’t “Standard” in that I use another arch (master-arch) to house many common packages and point all other arches to it via the “—with-package-name-dir” option.
> 
> During the debug-arch configure exodusII does not finish configure with the following error message:
> 
> CMake Error at /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.17.2/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cma\
> ke:164 (message):
>   Could NOT find PNetCDF (missing: PNetCDF_LIBRARIES PNetCDF_INCLUDE_DIRS)
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
>   /usr/local/Cellar/cmake/3.17.2/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:445 (_FPHS\
> A_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
>   cmake/tribits/common_tpls/find_modules/FindPNetCDF.cmake:216 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
>   cmake/tribits/common_tpls/utils/AddPackageDependency.cmake:86 (find_package)
>   cmake/tribits/common_tpls/find_modules/FindNetCDF.cmake:322 (add_package_dependency)
>   cmake/tribits/common_tpls/FindTPLNetcdf.cmake:70 (find_package)
>   cmake/tribits/core/package_arch/TribitsProcessEnabledTpl.cmake:106 (INCLUDE)
>   cmake/tribits/core/package_arch/TribitsGlobalMacros.cmake:1724 (TRIBITS_PROCESS_ENABLED_TPL)
>   cmake/tribits/core/package_arch/TribitsProjectImpl.cmake:206 (TRIBITS_PROCESS_ENABLED_TPLS)
>   cmake/tribits/core/package_arch/TribitsProject.cmake:93 (TRIBITS_PROJECT_IMPL)
>   CMakeLists.txt:46 (TRIBITS_PROJECT)
> 
> However checking the Cmake logs I find the following:
> 
> Processing enabled TPL: Pnetcdf (enabled explicitly, disable with -DTPL_ENABLE_Pnetcdf=OFF)
> -- Pnetcdf_LIBRARY_NAMES='pnetcdf'
> -- Searching for libs in Pnetcdf_LIBRARY_DIRS='/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petscpackages/lib'
> -- Searching for a lib in the set "pnetcdf":
> --   Searching for lib 'pnetcdf' ...
> --     Found lib '/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petscpackages/lib/libpnetcdf.dylib'
> -- TPL_Pnetcdf_LIBRARIES='/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petscpackages/lib/libpnetcdf.dylib'
> -- Searching for headers in Pnetcdf_INCLUDE_DIRS='/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petscpackages/i\
> nclude'
> -- Searching for a header file in the set "pnetcdf.h":
> --   Searching for header 'pnetcdf.h' ...
> --     Found header '/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petscpackages/include/pnetcdf.h'
> -- Found TPL 'Pnetcdf' include dirs '/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petscpackages/include'
> -- TPL_Pnetcdf_INCLUDE_DIRS='/Users/jacobfaibussowitsch/NoSync/petscpackages/include'
> Processing enabled TPL: Netcdf (enabled explicitly, disable with -DTPL_ENABLE_Netcdf=OFF)
> 
> Indicating that it does indeed find pnetcdf… but saves its location to “TPL_Pnetcdf_INCLUDE_DIRS” instead of the “PNetCDF_INCLUDE_DIRS” which it later searches. I have included both reconfigure scripts, and latest configure.log.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jacob Faibussowitsch
> (Jacob Fai - booss - oh - vitch)
> Cell: (312) 694-3391
>