I just did the experiment of loading an application using just -L<path> -lnetcdf and it worked fine for me. The machine info is: > uname -a Linux spock.unidata.ucar.edu 2.6.27.35-170.2.94.fc10.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 1 14:41:38 EDT 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux So, is the issue that we are not documenting this, or do you have some specific machine on which this is not working? =Dennis Heimbigner Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NBS-392373 Department: Support netCDF Priority: High Status: Open