Sort out the business of static/shared object external dependency libraries

[Ian Culverwell]

ROPP9.0 DRI reviewer Axel von Engeln says

There is however one issue that is a bit confusing. I noted that 
the shared/static libraries in my case did not change at all, all 
those changes were for other libraries that we have already 
installed on our system (netCDF, etc), thus I don't need to compile 
them. And the core ROPP is compiled as before, using shared 
libraries if provided. I think we should sort this out for the next 
version (10.0), and provide a better configure option with ROPP. 
This would also remove a lot of the current zoo of files in the 
configure directory.

To discuss with Axel after ROPP9.0.

[Ian Culverwell]

This whole library check thing needs revising (lots of redundant hdf5 checks etc), so take a look at it at ROPP10.0.

[Ian Culverwell]

Stig reports problem with ucar2ropp needing grib_api lib? Might as well log that here.

[Ian Culverwell]

Specifically, on the last point, Stig said:

> Hmmm..... but running ucar2ropp on a file I get this error:
>
> ucar2ropp: error while loading shared libraries: libgrib_api_f90.so.1:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Is that because I build it without LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$PREFIX/lib? I will try again with that line reinstated.
>
> -Stig

Axel said nothing more than the above (I checked).

The ROPP-9.0 beta review report is attached for reference.

[Ian Culverwell]

romsaf_ropp_betatest_v90.pdf

[Ian Culverwell]

Defer to ROPP-11.0.

[Ian Culverwell]

Oh Jesus. Maybe part of ROPP-11.1.