a part of the h4h5tools distribution long time ago, but the INSTALL file
was not updated in the development branch and slipped into 1.8 releases and current trunk.
Fold all the updates made for v1.8.0 release to the main trunk.
Versions are from r14548 to r14556. Changes are,
Updated section 4 for v1.8 release.
(May still check the v1.6 INSTALL to see if something can be adopted from
there. But this is good for v1.8 release.)
Moved the section 2. "Warnings about compilers" to Appendix A; renumbered
section 3-7 to section 2-6 and fixed all section references.
Updated Website names from ncsa.uiuc.edu to hdfgroup.org or hdfgroup.uiuc.edu.
Updated section 1-3 and some of section 4.
Quick editorial review.
Convert tabs to spaces for consistent display and printing.
Verify and fix links and references.
Moved the following three paragraphs to the Appendix part since they have old
information that are not relevant most recent machines or compilers.
"Large (>2GB) versus small (<2GB) file capability",
"Building and testing with Intel compilers"
"Building and testing with PGI compilers"
Bug fix
Description:
Changed the semantics of --enable-stream-vfd and --enable-shared.
Both are now disabled by default when parallel HDF5 is being built.
Solution:
Both shared and stream-vfd are disabled by default in parallel, but can
be enabled explicitly if the user chooses.
Before, shared was always enabled by default and stream-vfd was
always disabled in parallel.
Platforms tested:
heping, mir (configuration change only)
Bug fix.
Description:
The ${TR}, though avoid the error, is inconvenient. It is needed
because configure.in use the char range in the style of 'a-z'.
The other style of '[a-z]' is more commonly accepted by all tr
but autoconf tends to strip away [], making the syntax rather
clumsy.
Solution:
Learned from autoconf that it avoids the use of character range
by just spell all the letters out. Changed our tr commands to
use those variables defined by autoconf. Also removed the
definition of ${TR} since it will cause inconsistancy when
autoconf also use plain 'tr' in its generated code.
The Makefile.in are changed because the elimination of ${TR} from
configure triggered its removal from all Makefil.in. That is okay
because ${TR} is not used at all in Makefile.
Platforms tested:
h5committested. (sol failed to connected). also tested in shanti
using both /usr/ucb/tr and /bin/tr (the bad one before.)
Misc. update:
Updated both INSTALL and RELEASE files.
Updated release notes
Description:
Mentioned that shared C++ and Fortran libraries are supported in
INSTALL and RELEASE.txt.
Platforms tested:
documentation change only
Description: Removed support for SRB driver
Solution: Removed or modified appropriate files; ran reconfigure
to regenerate Makefile.in and configure files.
Platforms tested: heping and shanti
Misc. update: ran bin/chkmanifest on heping
Description: INSTALL file in 1.7 branch had old information about
the minimum set of header files that should be installed
Solution: Fixed
Platforms tested: N/A
Misc. update:
Code cleanup/bug fix
Description:
Fix configuration files to allow 64-bit compilation of the library with
a 64-bit version of zlib.
Solution:
Moved important compiler flags settings from CC macro to CFLAGS macro.
Instead of setting CC (F9X, CXX) environment variable for compiling for 64-bit
code, users should just set the CFLAGS (FFLAGS, CXXFLAGS) to -q64.
Updated INSTALL file to reflect this change.
Platforms tested:
IBM p690 (copper) w/parallel, FORTRAN, C++, srcdir.
Platforms specific - h5committest does not apply.
Description: When make install prefix=NEW_DIR is used to specify
new location for the installed HDF5 library, h5redeploy
should be used to fix h5cc, etc. scripts. INSTALL file
suggested to fix scripts by hand.
Solution: Modified instructions to use h5redeploy.
Platforms tested: verbena
Misc. update:
Description: After talking to Barbara we decided to use
ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/ location for
Intel and Cray Fortran source code patches.
Solution: Edited the file to point to new location.
Platforms tested:
Misc. update:
Update
Description:
Explained that, if the user uses the "make install prefix=NEW_DIR"
option, they'll need to modify the installed h5cc file to reflect the
change.
Purpose:
Feature add
Description:
Changed the "make install" thingy to "make install-all" in the
quick-setup guide. Also, changed the version number of HDF5 in the
examples from 1.4.0 and 1.2.0 to 1.5.x
document update
Description:
The information of setting SGI_ABI seemed to confuse some user.
Removed it since it is extra information in addition to the
preferred method of "CC=... ./configure".
Experienced user in IRIX64 would know that option.
Platforms tested:
Eyeballed.
Purpose:
Maintenance
Description:
Source directory has been rearranged. INSTALL*, HISTORY.txt and RELEASE.txt were moved to the release_docs directory. *.zip files were moved to the windows directory. README file was renamed to README.txt MANIFEST was updated to reflect those changes.
