netcdf3 issues

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hi Henry,

I tried latest 1.3 version tonite and it failed on Linux so I
did not try on 64 bit machines. Are you sure you committed the changes
that allowed it to pass the test suite? Please verify that your
working version is checked in. I committed some changes that removed
all the NETCDF2_ONLY code since this makes no sense in the 1.3
branch.

Coding style: Will you please put comments at the end of
clauses saying which clause just ended?
e.g.

if (foo){
....
} /* endif foo */

I find that code is much easier to read this way since often
the beginning and ending of a clause are not on the screen at the same
time. Here are sample commands that failed for me:

ncdiff -O -C -v PS nco_tst.nc nco_tst.nc foo.nc
ncdiff -O -C -v three_dmn_rec_var in.nc in.nc foo.nc

Please verify the behavior of these commands on linux
with your code and let me know what you find. Also, whenever you make
changes that seem to work, you should commit that changes so I can
stay in sync. And don't be afraid to edit doc/Changelog so that I can
read in English what the English have been up to...

Once I have the code working on Linux then I will test on 64 bit
machines.

Thanks, Charlie 

[henry Butowsky]

Hi Charlie,
Have fixed the ncdiff problem  and fixed a problem with
ncrename.  ( commited nc_utl.c and nco_netcdf.c).

Took a fresh copy of the source from the repository .
With the exception of ncrecinq , it seemed to compile
OK with NO_NETCDF_2 flag

Regards Henry

[Charlie Zender]

Hi Henry,

OK your latest changes seem to have fix the test suite problem
on Linux for me too. So I ran the 1.3 test
suite on 64 bit SGI machine and it choked on
operations with NC_LONG. Not surprising, I
guess. I'll try to look into why tomorrow.

Charlie

[henry Butowsky]

Hi Charlie,
  Hows the 64 bit compilation going ?
  Anything I can do to help ?

Regards Henry

[Nobody/Anonymous]

good news is code compiles 64 bit with gcc
and with sgi native compilers. bad news is
code hangs in dbx debugger so is hard to analyze
problems. i'm installing gdb to see if that works
any better. thanks but nothing to be done until
i get a debugger working and not hanging....

[henry Butowsky]

Hi Charlie,
   Hope everything is well -- When will be able
to make the netcdf3 the main branch and continue
development ?

[Charlie Zender]

Henry,

I just tagged nco-1_3_3.
It builds and tests fine on 32 and 64 bit platforms. It contains changes to many files
so please sync up with it. The default build
is with NO_NETCDF_2 now.

I've also begun to add internationalization
features, so far only put the hooks into
ncra.c. Anyway, do you have any changes you'd
like to make before making 1.3.x the stable
release (and renaming it 1.4)?

Thanks,
Charlie

[Charlie Zender]

Hi Henry,

I hope you got my last message sent two days
ago which does not seem to have posted to
sourceforge as it should have. What it said was
that...

I have tagged nco-1.3.3 which is a completely
working netCDF3 version. I then asked if there
were any features you could think of that we
should add to it before making it the main
trunk and releasing it as 1.4. I've added some
items to the TODO list but these are not relase-
critical. Probably the main thing I can think
of that needs to be done is to update the
user's guide in a few places to reflect the
new netCDF3 interface. I suggest we make
any changes now and tag nco 1.3.4 over the
next week and then release 1.4.0 = 1.3.4.

Charlie