[ncl-talk] Problem with NCL on MacOS X installed using macports

[Ben Schenkel]

Hi Rick-

My apologies for the delayed reply, your e-mail went to my spam folder for
some reason.  Below is a link to the Macports executeable:

http://weather.ou.edu/~schenkel/ncl

Thanks for your help.

-Ben


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Ben Schenkel
Research Scientist
University of Oklahoma/Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological
Studies
benschenkel at gmail.com

On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> That is bizarre indeed. It seems to be related to the MacPorts version --
> I don't get that behavior on my linux box nor my Mac (those are development
> versions that I've built).  Are you able to readily track down the MacPorts
> ncl executable and send that to me -- don't sweat it if it takes more than
> a minute for you.
>
> Rick
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 8:12 AM, Ben Schenkel <benschenkel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear NCL Talk-
>>
>> I have been running some of the ESMF ncl code on my Mac Desktop and have
>> been running into a strange error.  Specifically, whenever I call the
>> ESMF_regridding function, I receive an error around line 1613 in the script
>> after the "setfileoption" function is called complaining that the variable
>> "Opt" is no longer defined.  I've attached a screenshot of the error
>> below.  However, "Opt" had been defined prior to calling the
>> "setfileoption" function and appears to be deleted when I call this
>> function.  Moreover, I checked other variables in my script and these
>> variables have also been deleted after running "setfileoption."  It's as if
>> all variables are being cleared after running "setfileoption" in the ESMF
>> code.  The problem appears similar to the issue discussed in a prior thread:
>>
>>  (http://mailman.ucar.edu/pipermail/ncl-talk/2016-December/007465.html)
>>
>> As some background, I've previously used this same ESMF regridding
>> function on another Mac without any issues, so I'm not sure what's going
>> on.  Here are the specs for my current system:
>>
>> MacOS: Sierra Version 10.12.6
>> NCL: version 6.4.0 installed with macports
>> Macports: version 2.4.2
>>
>> Any suggestions on how I can fix this issue?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your time.
>>
>> -Ben
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Ben Schenkel
>> Research Scientist
>> University of Oklahoma/Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological
>> Studies
>> benschenkel at gmail.com
>>
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