Re: NCEP Grib Conversion problem with NCL 5.2.0.

From: Chris Edsall <c.edsall_at_nyahnyahspammersnyahnyah>
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 21:32:19 MST

Hi David,

> The Makefile in the g2clib-1.x.x directory should have a line like the
> following at the top when compiled for a 64 bit architecture:
>
> DEFS=-DUSE_JPEG2000 -DUSE_PNG -D__64BIT__

That was the problem exactly.

I rebuilt the latest Fedora package g2clib-1.2.1-1.el6 with that change, then rebuilt NCL against that. The test case now works.

I'll suggest to the Fedora package maintainer that they add the flag to 64bit architectures.

> I would also note that we use a slightly modified version of the grib2c
> library code that corrects a few errors (although the newest version has
> incorporated many of our changes).
> We can give you our version if you like.

Thank you, I would be interested in that.

Chris Edsall

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