re:
The current netcdf-c release has some problems with the mingw platform
on windows. Mostly they are path issues.
Changes to support mingw+msys2:
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* Enable option of looking into the windows registry to find
the mingw root path. In aid of proper path handling.
* Add mingw+msys as a specific platform in configure.ac and move testing
of the platform to the front so it is available early.
* Handle mingw X libncpoco (dynamic loader) properly even though
mingw does not yet support it.
* Handle mingw X plugins properly even though mingw does not yet support it.
* Alias pwd='pwd -W' to better handle paths in shell scripts.
* Plus a number of other minor compile irritations.
* Disallow the use of multiple nc_open's on the same file for windows
(and mingw) because windows does not seem to handle these properly.
Not sure why we did not catch this earlier.
* Add mountpoint info to dpathmgr.c to help support mingw.
* Cleanup dpathmgr conversions.
Known problems:
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* I have not been able to get shared libraries to work, so
plugins/filters must be disabled.
* There is some kind of problem with libcurl that I have not solved,
so all uses of libcurl (currently DAP+Byterange) must be disabled.
Misc. other fixes:
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* Cleanup the relationship between ENABLE_PLUGINS and various other flags
in CMakeLists.txt and configure.ac.
* Re-arrange the TESTDIRS order in Makefile.am.
* Add pseudo-breakpoint to nclog.[ch] for debugging.
* Improve the documentation of the path manager code in ncpathmgr.h
* Add better support for relative paths in dpathmgr.c
* Default the mode args to NCfopen to include "b" (binary) for windows.
* Add optional debugging output in various places.
* Make sure that everything builds with plugins disabled.
* Fix numerous (s)printf inconsistencies betweenb the format spec
and the arguments.
re: https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1977
PR https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/pull/1753, changed ncgen
to allows certain type names to be used as identifiers in
selected situations.
An unwanted side effect was that existing type aliases no longer
were accepted by ncgen. Specifically, using the "long" type
caused an error.
I was able to figure out a better solution to the original
problem (https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf-c/issues/1750)
that also fixes this problem as well.
This PR fixes that problem in ncgen/ncgen.l,
and adds tests to ncdump/test_keywords.sh
Built-in type-name keywords are currently flagged when used as
identifiers in formats that do not support that type. So if a
user declares a dimension named "string" in a classic .cdl file,
it causes an error.
This PR modifies ncgen to allow those format-specific type keywords
to be used as identifiers when compiling to formats that do not
support that type. Also added a test for this.
Also a couple of misc. changes to conditionalize some debug output.
