Public bug reported:

To the maintainers of the cdo package in ubuntu.

Dear ubuntu cdo package maintainers, I already posted "question" about this 
same issue I'm reporting here, but it expired, so I'm posting again this same 
issue in here, hoping to have some response or at least some directions on how 
to behave to help and fix the problem. I found a mismatch between what cdo is 
supposed to do and what it actually does.
I downloaded and installed the cdo package from the ubuntu official 
repositories (I'm using ubuntu 12.04). I wanted to use one of the cdo 
operators, sellonlatbox, on a weather forecast GRIB 1 datafile. The selection 
of the subdomain works fine, but however the resulting output file loses the 
information about the forecast lead time.
At first I thought it was a problem of the cdo software itself, and I posted a 
support request, to state the possible presence of a bug in their software to 
the developers of the cdo. You can find my complete report here:

https://code.zmaw.de/boards/1/topics/1171

I went on with my investigation to what was showing me as a bug, a 
misfunctioning of the cdo software. I compared with a colleague of mines, who 
does not use nor ubuntu nor debian but fedora. In his system, everything was 
working correctly.
So I tried to download from the CDO website

https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo

the source code of version 1.5.3, which is the one available in the ubuntu 
repositories, and not working on my system.
I compiled the cdo source package downloaded from the site with:

configure --with-netcdf=/usr --with-jasper=/usr --with-grib-api=/usr 
--with-proj=/usr
make
make install

This installation works good (and also much faster than the cdo software 
installed by the ubuntu software centre).
For this compilation, I used the standard compilers available with ubuntu (I 
mean, I do not have any proprietary compiler on my computer, only the standard 
ubuntu tools). The libraries I used for linking are the ones already available 
in the ubuntu software centre, namely provided by the netcdf-dev package 
(1:4.1.1-6), the libjasper-dev (1.900.1-13), libgrib-api-dev (1.9.9-3) and 
libproj-dev (4.7.0-1).
Please, let me know how the work will go on to solve the problem. I can provide 
more details to more specific questions, even if I tried to be as complete as 
possible in this report.
One more note: in my post on the cdo forum I referenced above, I mentioned the 
wgrib utility. The wgrib utility I used is the one available within the grads 
package installed by the ubuntu software centre (version 2.0.a9-4).

Faithfully
Marco Galli

** Affects: cdo (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: cdo compile malfunction

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