wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/lib-external/szip/2.1/src/szip-2.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf szip-2.1.tar.gz
cd szip-2.1
./configure --prefix=/home/acizmeli/opt
make
make test
make install
Then obtain the hd5 source code (again from http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html)
wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/lib-external/szip/2.1/src/szip-2.1.tar.gz
tar -xzvf hdf5-1.8.8.tar.gz
cd hdf5-1.8.8
./configure --prefix=/home/acizmeli/opt --with-szlib=/home/acizmeli/opt/
(make sure that ./configure has recognized the szip libraries)
make
(or for parallel compilation : ) make -j -16
make install
Then obtain the netcdf4 source :
wget http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/ftp/netcdf-4.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf netcdf-4.2.tar.gz
cd netcdf-4.2
CPPFLAGS=-I/home/acizmeli/opt/include/ LDFLAGS=-L/home/acizmeli/opt/lib ./configure --prefix=/home/acizmeli/opt/
make
make install
If there is a doxygen error, try adding --disable-doxygen
