[MINC-development] Problem building MINC2 from pure static libs

[Rick Hoge]

Hi -

I tried building the minc-2.0.14 source, and had problems when trying  
to build all libs static.

Basically I built

SZIP, ZLIB, HDF5, and NetCDF all with --disable-static in the  
configure step

If I configure MINC with --enable-minc2 and --disable-shared I get

   ...
   checking for library hdf5... no
   configure: error: cannot find required library hdf5

Even though libhdf5.a is in the required place.  If I build HDF5  
including shared libs, the problem goes away.

Shouldn't the --disable-shared flag prevent any dependency on other  
shared libs?  The full configure invocation I'm using is:

./configure --prefix=/Users/rhoge/src/MINC/install --with-build-path=/ 
Users/rhoge/src/MINC/install --enable-minc2 --enable-acr-nema -- 
disable-shared

I'm building on a Mac Pro Intel Xeon running MacOSX 10.5

Thanks for any suggestions,

Rick