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+name: strict_autotools
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ master ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ master ]
+
+jobs:
+  build:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    env:
+      CC: mpicc
+      FC: mpifort
+      CPPFLAGS: "-I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include"
+#      CFLAGS: "-std=c99  -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Werror"
+#      FFLAGS: "-fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer"
+#      FCFLAGS: "-fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Werror"
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    - name: Installs
+      run: |
+        sudo apt-get install netcdf-bin libnetcdf-dev doxygen graphviz wget gfortran libjpeg-dev libz-dev openmpi-bin libopenmpi-dev 
+
+    - name: pnetcdf build
+      run: |
+        wget https://parallel-netcdf.github.io/Release/pnetcdf-1.11.0.tar.gz 
+        tar -xzvf pnetcdf-1.11.0.tar.gz
+        ls -l
+        pushd pnetcdf-1.11.0
+        ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-shared
+        make
+        sudo make install
+        popd
+
+    - name: autoreconf
+      run: autoreconf -i
+    - name: configure
+      run: ./configure
+      env:
+        CFLAGS: "-std=c99  -fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Werror"
+        FFLAGS: "-fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer"
+        FCFLAGS: "-fsanitize=address -fno-omit-frame-pointer -Werror"
+    - name: make
+      run: make
+    - name: make check
+      run: make check
+    - name: make distcheck
+      run: make distcheck