mirror/hdf5
2
0
Fork 0
mirror of https://github.com/HDFGroup/hdf5.git synced 2025-02-11 16:01:00 +08:00
Code Issues Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

[svn-r25695] Maintenance: Addressing bug HDFFV-8836 - information in section 3.2 about the SZIP binaries distribution was wrong. Fixed.

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Elena Pourmal 2014-10-13 07:17:11 -05:00
parent a65212ed9f
commit b402201745
1 changed files with 21 additions and 17 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

38
release_docs/INSTALL
View File

@ -132,27 +132,31 @@ CONTENTS
filter will succeed but the data will not be compressed.
3.2. Szip (optional)
The HDF5 Library includes a predefined compression filter that
uses the extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm for chunked
datasets. For more information about Szip compression and license
The HDF5 Library includes a predefined compression filter that
uses the extended-Rice lossless compression algorithm for chunked
datasets. For more information about Szip compression and license
terms, see http://hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP/.
Precompiled Szip binaries for each supported platform and a source
tar file can be found at ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/.
To configure the HDF5 Library with the Szip compression filter, use
the '--with-szlib=/PATH_TO_SZIP' flag. For more information, see
The Szip source code can be obtained from the HDF5 Download page
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html#extlibs. Building
instructions are available with the Szip source code.
The HDF Group does not distribute separate Szip precompiled libraries,
but the HDF5 binaries available from
http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html include
the Szip encoder enabled binary for the corresponding platform.
To configure the HDF5 Library with the Szip compression filter, use
the '--with-szlib=/PATH_TO_SZIP' flag. For more information, see
section 4.3.7, "Specifying other libraries and headers."
Starting with release 1.6.3, Szip library binaries are distributed
with the encoder enabled (a license may be required to use this binary)
and with the encoder disabled (freely usable without a license).
If the encoder enabled binary is used, Szip compression encoding is
available for an HDF5 application; if the encoder disabled binary is
used, Szip compression is not available. Szip decoding is always
available for applications (i.e., an HDF5 application can always read
Szip-compressed data) if the Szip filter is present, regardless of the
binary used.
Please notice that if HDF5 configure cannot find a valid Szip library,
configure will not fail; in this case, the compression filter will
not be available to the applications.
To check if Szip compression was successfully configured in,
check the "I/O filters (external):" line in the configure output,
summary section, printed to the standard output.
3.3. MPI and MPI-IO
The parallel version of the library is built upon the foundation