GrADS 2.0.a1

[Oliver König]

Hi Wesley,
I still found "-ffast-math" in the makefiles. doesn't that cause the "Invalid
Date/Time value. Hour = 24 -- greater than 23" bug?
Regards,
oliver

On Wednesday 13 February 2008 23:06:51 Wesley Ebisuzaki wrote:
> All,
>
>    After some queries about the next g2ctl/wgrib2, I just put them on
> the web.
> For this version, you need to upgrade both programs.  Not everything works
> with 2.0.a1.  For example I couldn't get ecwmf thinned gaussian grids to
> work.
>
>            Wesley
>
> Jennifer Adams wrote:
> > I have posted a new release -- 2.0.a1. The src and binaries are here:
> >
> > ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-src-2.0.a1.tar.gz
> > ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-bin-2.0.a1-darwin-intel.tar.gz
> > ftp://iges.org/grads/2.0/grads-bin-2.0.a1-RHEL5-x86_64.tar.gz
> >
> > This release has some significant bug fixes:
> >
> > 0. Detection of linear and wrapping axes for netcdf files opened with
> > sdfopen
> > 1. GRIB2 grids that have a bitmap were being drawn upside down
> > 2. Fixed display for gxout=model and gxout=grid
> > 3. Fixed handling of templated netcdf data sets opened with xdfopen
> > 4. Fixed detection of unlimited axis in hdf files opened with sdfopen
> > 5. Fixed I/O of PDEF files
> > 6. Fix to gribmap when creating index files >250mb
> > 7. Added some debug statements for detection of errors in calls to
> > seekgb() in the grib2c library.
> >
> > These bugs were causing catastrophic errors (especially #6) and so it
> > seemed worthwhile to put out a new release. I have yet to make any
> > changes to the build system -- I know it's hard to build from source,
> > and I hope to make it easier, but right now fixing catastrophic bugs
> > in the GrADS core is a higher priority for me.
> >
> > To take advantage of the debug statements (#7 above), you must change
> > the value of debug in line 75 of gaio.c:
> >   static gaint debug=1;
> > and then build from source. The binary distributions have debug set to 0.
> >
> > I will work on getting out some more binaries for: Mac PowerPC, SunOS,
> > and RHEL4 x86_64. Sorry, we don't have any 32-bit linux boxes at COLA
> > anymore.
> >
> > Please post comments and questions and bug reports here, no matter how
> > technical they are. The gradsusr posts are archived and searchable,
> > which makes this the best place to report and resolve problems.
> >
> > Jennifer
> >
> > --
> > Jennifer M. Adams
> > IGES/COLA
> > 4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302
> > Calverton, MD 20705
> > jma at cola.iges.org <mailto:jma at cola.iges.org>