Use nc-config in configure to check capabilities #39
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Currently,
configuresearches for the NetCDF header and library, and checks for various functions in order to determine what capabilities it has. However,nc-config, which comes with most (all?) NetCDF distributions already has this information.This PR adds the flags
--with-nc-config/--without-nc-configto./configure. If--without-nc-configis specified, thenconfigureuses the current method to determine functionality. Otherwise, it will usenc-configfrom either$PATH, or the path supplied to--with-nc-config=<path>. This always different NetCDF-C installations to be used, and not just the default system one.Unfortunately, I don't know enough CMake to add it to that build system as well, but presumably this could be done.
Also, although it doesn't appear that you actually link against NetCDF-C,
nc-configcould also supplyLDFLAGS, LIBS, CPPFLAGSif needed.