# Ferret
The Ferret program from NOAA/PMEL. 
This repository is regularly synchronized with Ferret repository at PMEL 
(the trunk of the ferret project in the subversion repository at PMEL) 
using git-svn.

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## Ferret Documentation

For more information on using Ferret, see the Ferret documentation under 
[http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/](http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/)

Information about the Ferret email users group, and archives of past discussions
from the group (which should be searched prior to sending a question to the email 
users group) can be found at 
[http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/email-users-group](http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/Ferret/email-users-group)

## If you build Ferret from these source files, please note:

The `site_specific.mk` and `external_functions/ef_utilites/site_specific.mk` 
files in the repository have been renamed with a `.in` appended to the name. 
You must copy these files with the `.in` extensions to create files with the 
`site_specific.mk` name and edit the contents to configure these for your 
system.  The `site_specific.mk` files will be ignored by git (the name was 
added to `.gitignore`) so your customized configuration files will not be 
added to your repository if you have cloned this repository. 

#### The `site_specific.mk.in` configuration template file changed April, 2018.

Library directories are now specified instead of installation directories
for NetCDF, HDF5, ReadLine, and SZ, with the makefile environment names
changing from `..._DIR` to `..._LIBDIR`.
The `include` directories, if needed, are assumed to be sibling directories
to these library directories.
You may wish to create a new `site_specific.mk` configuration file 
from this updated configuration template file.