Building Metlibs and Diana with Autotools

The autotooled versions are in separate branches:

• metlibs: https://svn.met.no/metlibs/branches/autotools
• diana: https://svn.met.no/diana/branches/autotools

They both use a number of specially-written autoconf macros, which can be found in metlibs' m4 subdirectory.

On a clean stock Ubuntu Hardy install, you will first need to install build tools:

• build-essentials
• gfortran
• autoconf
• automake
• libtool

Next, you will need to install various third-party libraries that Metlibs and Diana depend on:

• ftgl-dev
• libhdf4g-dev
• libhdf5-serial-dev
• libtiff4-dev
• libqt4-dev
• libqt4-opengl-dev
• proj
• libboost-dev (*)
• libboost-date-time-dev
• libboost-serialization-dev
• libboost-thread-dev
• libmysqlclient15-dev (*)
• libpqxx-dev (*)
• libomniorb4-dev (XXX actually optional)
• omniidl4

For observation buffer support in Diana:

• EMOSLIB (no package; install manually from source)

For GRIB support in Metlibs and Diana:

• GRIB API (no package; install manually from source)

For NetCDF support in Metlibs and Diana:

• libnetcdf-dev
• UDUNITS (no package; install manually from source)

Except for those marked with (*), configure will terminate with an error message if any required package is absent.