[netcdfgroup] Patch for 4.2.1 available

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• Subject: [netcdfgroup] Patch for 4.2.1 available
• From: Russ Rew <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 10:52:00 -0600

Hi,

A patch for netCDF-4.2.1, as announced yesterday, is now available from:

  ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4.2.1.patch

It contains modifications for two source files to fix problems we regard
as serious:

  - a DAP performance bug in remotely accessing large files (> 2GiB)
    that also results in an incorrect error message on close

  - an ncdump bug in CDL output for netCDF-4 string data containing
    characters that need to be escaped (e.g. newlines, tabs, quotes)

You can get the patch, apply it to a netcdf-4.2.1 source distribution,
rebuild the libraries and executables, and reinstall to fix the two
problems above. Alternatively, you can wait for the 4.2.1.1
distribution, available soon, that will include the fixes as well as
associated tests.

Applying the patch is pretty easy.  For example, if you download it to
/tmp/netcdf-4.2.1.patch and want to apply it to a new distribution
unpacked into /usr/local/src/netcdf-4.2.1:

   cd /usr/local/src/netcdf-4.2.1
   patch -p1 < /tmp/netcdf-4.2.1.patch
   ./configure ...
   make check
   make install

--Russ
--Dennis