# JEDI configure (ecbuild) failing with "Could NOT find PnetCDF (missing: PnetCDF\_PREFIX Fortran)"

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**Category:** JEDI\
**Created:** [April 11, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.jcsda.org/t/jedi-configure-ecbuild-failing-with-could-not-find-pnetcdf-missing-pnetcdf-prefix-fortran/299 "2022-04-11T19:14:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![jediguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jediguy](https://forums.jcsda.org/u/jediguy)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://forums.jcsda.org/t/jedi-configure-ecbuild-failing-with-could-not-find-pnetcdf-missing-pnetcdf-prefix-fortran/299/1 "2022-04-11T19:14:07Z")

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Hello -  
I am running the command “ecbuild --build=Debug …/src/mpas-bundle”. It runs fine until one of the PnetCDF portions, where it dies with:

Could NOT find PnetCDF (missing: PnetCDF\_PREFIX Fortran)

I don’t know what “PnetCDF\_PREFIX Fortran” refers to. Please, can someone clue me in here. I don’t see a Fortran component in my PnetCDF build. (I realize that netCDF has a Fortran component, i.e., libnetcdff.a). The other PnetCDF portions in CMakeCache.txt are fine.

I am running on Debian Linux.

TIA

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**Author:** ![jediguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbe5ce/32.png) [@jediguy](https://forums.jcsda.org/u/jediguy)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://forums.jcsda.org/t/jedi-configure-ecbuild-failing-with-could-not-find-pnetcdf-missing-pnetcdf-prefix-fortran/299/2 "2022-04-16T22:58:20Z")

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cmake was causing me issues, so I discovered “autoreconf -I” would create the ‘configure’ file which I am more familiar with. Problem solved.