22 files changed, 181 insertions, 71 deletions

diff --git a/src/error/check_ncbi_error.c b/src/error/check_ncbi_error.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6071d1a
--- a/dev/null
+++ b/src/error/check_ncbi_error.c
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#include "check_ncbi_error.h"
+#include <error.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <blast.h>
+
+void
+check_ncbi_error (ValNodePtr error_returns,
+		  const char *filename, unsigned int linenum)
+{
+  error_at_line (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, filename, linenum,
+		 "An error has been reported by the NCBI Toolkit API: %s",
+		 BlastErrorToString (error_returns));
+
+  return;
+}