20031007: ctype_b error

Amala,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Amala Mahadevan <address@hidden>
> Subject: ctype_b error
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata

The above message contained the following:

>       I have downloaded the netCDF binaries from your web site, but cannot 
> link libnetcdf.a to my fortran routines because of the following error 
> at link time:
>   `NC_check_name':
>   : undefined reference to `__ctype_b'
>   collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> This error is discussed in your e-mail archive (see below), but I am 
> unable to figure out how I can fix it in a simple way.  Can I solve the 
> problem without compiling netCDF from source? I am using a version of 
> linux that is akin to Redhat linux 9.0 and have access to the system 
> files on my machine.

I believe that you will have to build the netCDF package from source on
your system in order to obtain a netCDF library that doesn't reference
"__ctype_b".  We don't have a RH 9 system here that we can use to
generate a binary distribution.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson