Sorry, the only additional suggestions I can think of are to specify setenv CFLAGS "-no-multibyte-chars" and or setenv LC_ALL "C" Also in case you are trying to build the library as root rather than a normal user, you might try doing "make check" as a normal user, then "make install" as root. That way the compilation will be done as a normal user, and you may get a default locale that will work with the icc compiler ... --Russ Russ Rew UCAR Unidata Program address@hidden http://www.unidata.ucar.edu Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: DTX-704143 Department: Support netCDF Priority: Normal Status: Closed