A series of templates for different compilers/architectures can be found in the DART/build_templates directory and have names with extensions that identify the compiler, the architecture, or both. This is how you inform the build process of the specifics of your system. Our intent is that you copy one that is similar to your system into DART/build_templates/mkmf.template and customize it.

Go into the build_templates subdirectory and copy over the closest mkmf.template.<compiler system> file into mkmf.template.

Edit mkmf.template to set the NETCDF directory location if not in /usr/local or comment it out and set $NETCDF in your environment.

For more information on how to customize the machine-specific resources, see here.