FS#21746 - [netcdf] Enable build of udunits library

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Graziano Giuliani (Graziano) - Friday, 19 November 2010, 08:42 GMT
Last edited by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Friday, 01 July 2011, 16:41 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

The actual PKGBUILD does not enable by default (well, configure doesn't, either) the building of the udunits library now distributed along NetCDF. This library is needed together with NetCDF by other packages (mostly in AUR), and forces the existence in AUR of the udunits/udunits2 packages. A simple hack, a symbolik link, present in the udunits or udunits2 PKGBUILD can enable also back compatibility for older software still needing the old udunits 1 API.

Additional info:
* netcdf 4.1.1.3
* the --enable-udunits should be added to configure line.
* See udunits PKGBUILD for the link hack,

for x in a so so.0 so.0.0.0; do
ln -s libudunits2.$x \
$pkgdir/usr/lib/libudunits.$x
done
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Closed by  Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Friday, 01 July 2011, 16:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed by the addition of the libudunits community package
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Thursday, 05 May 2011, 09:44 GMT
Udunits is now in the community repo https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/udunits
Its also built with system expat now.
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Friday, 06 May 2011, 10:23 GMT
So this can be closed then?
Comment by Graziano Giuliani (Graziano) - Friday, 06 May 2011, 10:41 GMT
Ok. It also seems that the udunits package is actively developed out of netcdf and the internal version inside the netcdf library is not the most up to date (2.1.21 instead of 2.1.22 available on udunits page wich has bug fixes). May we add an hint that to have unit of measure conversion capabilities, the user is invited to install udunits package?
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Friday, 06 May 2011, 10:46 GMT
I'm not a fan of adding install messages, as are most other devs. Maybe adding it somewhere in the wiki is the best option if it is not clear otherwise.

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