[svn-r2989] Purpose:

Updating for release.
Description:
    Added descriptions of the configure options that have been added to the
    library recently.
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Quincey Koziol 2000-11-21 15:06:48 -05:00
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instance, to enable symbolic debugging of a production version
of HDF5 one might say:
$ CFLAGS=-g ./confgure --enable-production
$ CFLAGS=-g ./configure --enable-production
5.3.4. Compiling HDF5 wrapper libraries
One can optionally build the Fortran 90 and/or C++ interface to
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parallelizm on a distributed multi-processor system. Read the
file INSTALL_parallel for detailed explanations.
5.3.11. Threadsafe capability
The HDF5 library can be configured to be thread-safe (on a very
large scale) with the with the '--enable-threadsafe' flag to
configure. Read the file doc/TechNotes/ThreadSafeLibrary.html
for further details.
5.3.12. Backward compatibility
The 1.4 version of the HDF5 library can be configured to enable
access to functions that were present in the 1.2 version, but removed
from the current version with the '--enable-hdf5v1_2' configure
flag.
5.3.13. Network stream capability
The HDF5 library can be configured with a network stream file
driver with the '--enable-stream-vfd' configure flag. This option
compiles the "stream" Virtual File Driver into the main library.
See the documentation on the Virtual File Layer for more details
about the use of this driver.
5.4. Building
The library, confidence tests, and programs can be build by