Dan,
> Will the new C++ support be in the form of a library to be compiled
> once and then linked with various user programs? The present system,
> with a couple of C++ files to be compiled into .o files and then
> linked with the user program, is somewhat inconvenient. There would
> be a real advantage in writing e.g.
> g++ -o myprog myprog.c -lnetcdf -lnetcdf-c++ -lm
> in a Makefile. Plus, unix has a simple system for dealing with
> libSOMETHING.a files (e.g. directories where they are stored), whereas
> there is no well-known system for individual .o files to be linked
> with projects.
The new C++ patch is now available from
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/2.3.2-patch4
and includes changes to the c++-directory Makefile so it builds a library
instead of just object files. Thanks for the good suggestion.
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