From f9f28230f93f9254565830c34855f2305a13c7d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sean Arms <67096+lesserwhirls@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 11:39:11 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Do not initialize the Nc4prototypes on class load

Fixes Unidata/netcdf-java#1469
---
 netcdf4/src/main/java/ucar/nc2/jni/netcdf/Nc4Iosp.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/netcdf4/src/main/java/ucar/nc2/jni/netcdf/Nc4Iosp.java b/netcdf4/src/main/java/ucar/nc2/jni/netcdf/Nc4Iosp.java
index 6c1893586d..919e20d97f 100755
--- a/netcdf4/src/main/java/ucar/nc2/jni/netcdf/Nc4Iosp.java
+++ b/netcdf4/src/main/java/ucar/nc2/jni/netcdf/Nc4Iosp.java
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ public class Nc4Iosp extends AbstractIOServiceProvider implements IOServiceProvi
   public static final String TRANSLATE_NONE = "none";
   public static final String TRANSLATE_NC4 = "nc4";
 
-  private static Nc4prototypes nc4 = NetcdfClibrary.getForeignFunctionInterface();
+  private static Nc4prototypes nc4 = null;
 
   // TODO: These flags currently control debug messages that are printed to STDOUT. They ought to be logged to SLF4J.
   // We could use SLF4J markers to filter which debug-level messages are printed.