Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.

...

Code Block
cd grib_api
CC=gcc FC=gfortran ./configure --prefix=$(pwd)/myinstall --enable-static --enable-pthread   \
                               --disable-shared --disable-jpeg --disable-omp-packing --disable-vector

Note the use of the backslash '\' to allow the command to use two lines.

A quick description of what these options are for:

...

which will send all the output from the make command to the file 'make.out' as well as the terminal. This is recommended as the output is lengthy.

Info
titleParallel make

If your computer has multiple cores as many do these days, you can exploit this by using the -j flag to make to build grib_api faster. e.g.

Code Block
make -j 3 | tee make.out

would allow make to compile 3 files at once - appropriate on a 4 core machine.

Next, to verify grib_api works correctly run:

...