Jeff Whitaker

Here's the netcdf file: [test.nc.gz](https://github.com/Unidata/netcdf4-python/files/127464/test.nc.gz)

Seems like there may be some lingering issues in the netcdf-c vlen code. Would be nice to have a c-program that triggers the crash.

Pull request #605 fixes @dopplershift's test script for me. Thanks @ckhroulev!

pull request merged that should fix the tests

That error message is returned by [nc_strerror](https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/netcdf-4/newdocs/netcdf-c/nc_005fstrerror.html), which in turn is forwarding the system error using `strerror`. I agree a more informative message would be nice, but I don't immediately...

Yes, I believe the message is coming from libdispatch/derror.c, but @DennisHeimbigner would know for sure.

No. I will change that.

pull request #739

Looks like it should be building netcdf-c 4.8.1 (https://github.com/MacPython/netcdf4-python-wheels/blob/master/config.sh). Not sure why it's not ending up in the whl.

more recently build wheels are at https://github.com/MacPython/netcdf4-python-wheels/releases/tag/v1.5.8rel - they should definitely be using 4.8.1