Hi Charlie,
> I never received a response to this bug report so I am resending.
> Hope I am using the right address.
Yes, but this is the first time I've seen it, so I don't know what
happened to your previous submission.
We've duplicated the problem using the files you made available, and
it looks like a bug in how ncdump displays multidimensional character
arrays that have more than one unlimited dimension. We hope to have
a fix soon.
Thanks for being persistent about reporting the bug.
--Russ
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: ncgen problem with multiple record dimensions?
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:36:51 -0700
> From: Charlie Zender <address@hidden>
> Organization: University of California, Irvine
> To: netCDF Support <address@hidden>
>
> Hi,
>
> Latest ncgen seems to fail to create netCDF4 file from this CDL file
> produced by ncdump from a presumably valid netCDF4 file that
> contains multiple record dimensions (MRD):
>
> address@hidden:~$ ncks -O -d time,0,1 -d run,0,1 -d step,0,1 -d number,0,1
> -d ngr,0,1 ${DATA}/hdf/71355.ecmf.1.nc ~/mrd.nc
> address@hidden:~$ ncdump ~/mrd.nc > ~/mrd.cdl
> address@hidden:~$ ncgen -k netCDF-4 -b -o ~/mrd2.nc ~/mrd.cdl
> assertion failure: con->nctype == NC_COMPOUND
>
> Aborted (core dumped)
> address@hidden:~$ ncgen -v
> ncgen: option requires an argument -- 'v'
> Usage: ncgen [ -b ] [ -c ] [ -f ] [ -k kind ] [ -x ] [-S struct-format]
> [-M <name> [ -o outfile] [ file ... ]
> netcdf library version 4.3.3-rc1 of Jun 5 2014 13:50:57 $
>
> The basic problem is that ncgen cannot work with ncdump output.
> This prevents me from examining the possibly deeper problems
> that this bug exposes, which have troubled some NCO users.
>
> mrd.nc and mrd.cdl are at
>
> http://dust.ess.uci.edu/tmp/mrd.cdl
> http://dust.ess.uci.edu/tmp/mrd.nc
>
> because they are too big to send from my current slow connection.
>
> Can you reproduce the problem?
> If so, please let me know when there is a fix.
>
> Thanks!
> c
> --
> Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci.
> University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
>
>
>
>
Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program
address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu
Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: FJV-105162
Department: Support netCDF
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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