Re: ut_calendar error

Hi Dan,

The cd_calendar stuff didn't make it into 6.0.0-beta, but it will be in 6.0.0.

If you tell me what kind of system you have, I'll give you a new "ncl" executable that has this function, so you can help me test it.

I need to know:

   uname -a
   gcc --version
   gfortran --version

Thanks,

--Mary

On May 9, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Daniel Adriaansen wrote:

> Hi Mary,
>
> I tried all kinds of things with the UDUNITS variables, setting one to
> point to the xml file in the 6.0.0-beta installation, unsetting it, and
> everything in between. In the end, I was unsuccessful. I just decided
> to upgrade my system anyway. Now I am running Ubuntu-11 (latest
> release) and everything works fine.
>
> One other comment from my original e-mail, was regarding the
> cd_calendar() function. I can't seem to get this to work in the
> 6.0.0-beta version of NCL. I found the function page on the website
> about it, but it doesn't say I need to load any additional scripts, or
> that it isn't available in the beta all it says is that it will be
> available as of V6.0.0. ut_calendar() still works fine for me, I just
> wanted to let you know cd_calendar() does not. Output below:
>
> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0-beta
> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
> ncl 0> a = 1304916770
> ncl 1> b = cd_calendar(a,0)
> fatal:Undefined identifier: (cd_calendar) is undefined, can't continue
> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 1
>
>
> -Dan
>
> On 05/02/2011 12:52 AM, Mary Haley wrote:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> This kind of error showed up with version 5.2.0, but I'm not sure why
>> you're seeing it with version 5.2.1. Maybe the answer will still help,
>> in case you have some kind of UDUNITS environment variable set:
>>
>>
>> NCL Version 5.2.0 was built against UDUNITS-2, V2.1.14. It needs to
>> have the correct path to some UDUNITS xml files in order to work properly.
>>
>> If you have the environment variable UDUNITS2_XML_PATH set to point to
>> an different version of UDUNITS-2, then you may see this message. Try
>> unsetting this environment variable with "unset" or "unsetenv".
>>
>>
>> This comes from the FAQ:
>>
>>
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/faq/index.shtml#err_msgs_006
>>
>> If this doesn't help, let me know.
>>
>> --Mary
>>
>> On Apr 27, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Daniel Adriaansen wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I am running NCL on Fedora 12. System information:
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> $ Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686.PAE #1 SMP Sat Nov 7
>>> 21:25:57 EST 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> The default NCL package that I chose to install during the Fedora
>>> installation was 5.1.1. In this version, the ut_calendar() function
>>> performs as expected.
>>>
>>> However, I upgraded to a pre-compiled non-openDAP enabled binary for
>>> version 5.2.1
>>> (ncl_ncarg-5.2.1.Linux_i686_nodap_gcc432.tar.gz). This version gave me
>>> the following error:
>>>
>>> Copyright (C) 1995-2010 - All Rights Reserved
>>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>>> NCAR Command Language Version 5.2.1
>>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>>> ncl 0> a = 1303914836
>>> ncl 1> a@units = "seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00"
>>> ncl 2> b = ut_calendar(a,0)
>>> warning:ut_calendar: Invalid specification string. Missing values will be
>>> returned.
>>>
>>> I did not notice this error while using 5.2.1, and have since upgraded to
>>> the new ncl-6.0.0-beta:
>>> (ncl_ncarg-6.0.0-beta.Linux_RedHat_i686_nodap_gcc412.tar.gz). It was with
>>> this version that I uncovered the same error:
>>>
>>> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
>>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>>> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0-beta
>>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>>> ncl 0> a = 1303914836
>>> ncl 1> a@units = "seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00"
>>> ncl 2> b = ut_calendar(a,0)
>>> warning:ut_calendar: Invalid specification string. Missing values will be
>>> returned.
>>>
>>> I did a little research and noted that this particular warning was an
>>> issue that was supposedly solved in 5.2.1. I also noted that
>>> ut_calendar() is being replaced by cd_calendar in ncl-6.0.0 but it appears
>>> this isn't built into the beta yet:
>>>
>>> Copyright (C) 1995-2011 - All Rights Reserved
>>> University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
>>> NCAR Command Language Version 6.0.0-beta
>>> The use of this software is governed by a License Agreement.
>>> See http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/ for more details.
>>> ncl 0> a = 1303914836
>>> ncl 1> a@units = "seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00:00"
>>> ncl 2> b = cd_calendar(a,0)
>>> fatal:Undefined identifier: (cd_calendar) is undefined, can't continue
>>> fatal:Execute: Error occurred at or near line 3
>>>
>>> One of the biggest head-scratchers I have is that I also run
>>> ncl-6.0.0-beta on a version of Ubuntu I have installed on another machine,
>>> and I do not get this error. ut_calendar() works fine on that setup.
>>> System info there:
>>>
>>> $ uname -a
>>> $ Linux 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:00:26 UTC 2011 i686
>>> GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> NCL binary package installed on Ubuntu:
>>> ncl_ncarg-6.0.0-beta.Linux_Debian_i686_nodap_gcc432.tar.gz
>>>
>>> Does anyone have any idea why it won't work on Fedora? Just for kicks I
>>> also downloaded the other two 32-bit binaries:
>>> ncl_ncarg-6.0.0-beta.Linux_Debian_i686_nodap_gcc445.tar.gz
>>> ncl_ncarg-6.0.0-beta.Linux_Debian_i686_nodap_gcc432.tar.gz
>>>
>>> but recieved the same error when using those installations.
>>>
>>> I'm perplexed as to why it works on Ubuntu and not Fedora, and why 5.1.1
>>> works on Fedora but not 5.2.1 or 6.0.0-beta. I'm also curious why
>>> cd_calendar() does not work on 6.0.0-beta either. Suggestions would be
>>> appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> -Dan
>>>
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