Re: NCEP Grib Conversion problem with NCL 5.2.0.

From: Chris Edsall <c.edsall_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 18:51:42 MST

Hi Mary, Dave,

I'm a sysadmin at Michael's site.

> I noticed that you have a slightly different location of your GRIB2 code
> tables, so I'm guessing that your NCL installation came from a LINUX package
> installer, and not from us. If that's the case, then it's possible that your
> environment is set up incorrectly, or else the wrong files are installed.

Indeed, the NCL we are using is from a package.

I started with ncl-5.2.0-2.el6 from the EPEL repository.
( http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=181055 )
I rebuilt that on RHEL5.5. However since we require NetCDF4 support I
pointed the build at a local version of netcdf rather then the RHEL5.5 one.

The changes are:

[edsall@cli-dev ncl]$ svn diff --old=.@22 --new=.@65
Index: ncl.spec
===================================================================
--- ncl.spec (revision 22)
+++ ncl.spec (revision 65)
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name: ncl
 Version: 5.2.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Release: 3%{?dist}
 Summary: NCAR Command Language and NCAR Graphics
 
 Group: Applications/Engineering
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
 Patch15: ncl-5.0.0-udunits.patch
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
 
-BuildRequires: /bin/csh, gcc-gfortran, netcdf-devel
+BuildRequires: /bin/csh, gcc-gfortran, netcdf-niwa-devel
 BuildRequires: hdf-static, hdf-devel >= 4.2r2, libjpeg-devel
 BuildRequires: g2clib-static, g2clib-devel, librx-devel, atlas-devel
 # imake needed for makedepend
Index: Site.local.ncl
===================================================================
--- Site.local.ncl (revision 22)
+++ Site.local.ncl (revision 65)
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 #define SharePath $(DESTDIR)@datadir@
 
 #define BuildWithF90 TRUE
-#define IncSearch -I/usr/include/netcdf -I/usr/include/udunits2
-#define LibSearch -L@libdir@/hdf
+#define IncSearch -I/usr/local/include/netcdf -I/usr/include/udunits2
+#define LibSearch -L/usr/local/lib64 -L@libdir@/hdf
 
 #define BuildNetCDF4 1
 #define NetCDF4lib -lnetcdf

> When you installed V5.2.0, did you get a new set of GRIB2 code tables, or
> are you using ones from an older installation? If you are using files from an
> older installation, this might be a problem.

They are the ones from the package (which are the ones from ncl_ncarg_src-5.2.0.tar.gz)

> Meanwhile, I've attached the list of grib2 code tables that are a part of
> 5.2.0, in case you want to compare it to what you have in
> /usr/share/ncarg/grib2_codetables on your RHEL5.5 system.

Thanks.

[edsall@fc-2 ~]$ cd /usr/share/ncarg/
[edsall@fc-2 ncarg]$ find grib2_codetables -type f |sort > ~/codetables.niwa.txt
[edsall@fc-2 ncarg]$ cd
[edsall@fc-2 ~]$ sort grib2.5.2.0.txt > grib2.5.2.0.sort.txt
[edsall@fc-2 ~]$ diff --report-identical-files grib2.5.2.0.sort.txt ~/codetables.niwa.txt
Files grib2.5.2.0.sort.txt and /home/edsall/codetables.niwa.txt are identical

So we do have the up to date codetables.

> Dave Brown pointed out that you may have gotten an NCL that was compiled
> against a grib2 library that didn't have a necessary 64-bit flag set when it
> was compiled.

The link line is:

g++ -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions \
    -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic \
    -fPIC -rdynamic -o ncl Ncl.o io.o NclHLUObj.o scanner.o parser.o \
    MathFuncs.o NclTypedouble.o NclTypefloat.o clTypeint.o NclTypelogical.o \
    clTypelong.o NclTypeobj.o clTypeshort.o NclTypestring.o clTypeint64.o \
    NclTypeuint64.o clTypeushort.o NclTypeuint.o NclTypeulong.o clTypebyte.o \
    NclTypechar.o TypeSupport.o clMultiDValData.o AddFileFormats.o \
    AttSupport.o DataSupport.o GetGrids.o itData.o Memory.o NclAtt.o \
    NclCCM.o clCoordVar.o NclData.o NclFile.o NclFileVar.o clGRIB.o \
    NclHDF.o NclMultiDValnclfileData.o clNetCdf.o NclOneDValCoordData.o \
    NclType.o clTypelist.o NclVar.o VarSupport.o qu2reg3.o rowina3.o \
    scm0.o ncepcode.o NclGRIB2.o AddBuiltIns.o AddHLUObjs.o trinsics.o \
    Execute.o e.o OpsFuncs.o Printtoken.o SrcTree.o Translate.o clHLUVar.o \
    HLUSupport.o clMultiDValHLUObjData.o Support.o BuiltInFuncs.o cs.o \
    cs.o ctions.o yywrap.o craybin.o e.o sysunix.o ListSupport.o clList.o \
    NclMultiDVallistData.o fortranio.o -L../../.././ni/src/lib/nfp \
    -lnfp -L../../.././ni/src/lib/nfpfort -lnfpfort \
    -L../../.././ni/src/lib/hlu -lhlu -L../../.././ncarg2d/src/libncarg \
    -lncarg -L../../.././ncarg2d/src/libncarg_gks -lncarg_gks \
    -L../../.././common/src/libncarg_c -lncarg_c -L../../.././ngmath/src/lib \
    -lngmath -L/usr/lib64/ncarg -L/usr/local/lib64 -L/usr/lib64/hdf -lcurl \
    -lrx -lpthread -lnetcdf -lmfhdf -ldf -ljpeg -lz -ludunits2 -lgrib2c \
    -ljasper -lpng -lz -lpng -lz -L../../.././external/sphere3.1_dp \
    -lsphere3.1_dp -L../../.././external/fftpack5_dp -lfftpack5_dp \
    -L/usr/lib64/atlas -llapack -latlas -L/usr/lib64/atlas -lcblas -lf77blas \
    -lptf77blas -lX11 -lXext -lgfortran -lm -ldl

The important bit in there is -lgrib2c. That links against

[edsall@fc-2 ~]$ locate grib2c.a
/usr/lib/libgrib2c.a
/usr/lib64/libgrib2c.a
[edsall@fc-2 ~]$ rpm -qf /usr/lib{,64}/libgrib2c.a
g2clib-devel-1.2.0-1.el5
g2clib-devel-1.2.0-1.el5
[edsall@fc-2 ~]$ ls -l /usr/lib{,64}/libgrib2c.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 261536 Apr 16 2010 /usr/lib64/libgrib2c.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166088 Apr 16 2010 /usr/lib/libgrib2c.a

So there is 64-bit GRIB library available at least.

> I could try giving you a 5.2.1 "ncl" executable to try on your RHEL system.
> First, I need to know what version of gcc you are running there, "gcc
> --version".

[edsall@fc-2 ~]$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)

Thanks again,
Chris Edsall

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