srcdirname <dir>:
Use <dir> as the srcdir testing directory if srcdir is choosen.
If <dir> starts with '-', it is append to the default name
E.g., "snapshot srcdir srcdirname -xx" uses hostname-xx
[Default is hostname]
op-configure <option>:
Pass <option> to the configure command
Feature "improvement".
Problem:
The Makefile target triggers gmake to redo the whole auto-configure
process if it sees any autoconfigure related files changed. It causes
couple problems. One is that when multiple machines using --srcdir
are running make, they may detect the changes and launch the autoconf
at the same time. These end up as multiple hosts updating the same
srcdir area together--bad things can happen. Another one is that
when one modifies some Makefile.in, then try "make distclean" before
launching the configure process. Instead of cleaning things, it
started a configure, recreate all Makefiles and other files, then
finally come around to do the distclean--who knows what it cleans
by now since the Makefile is changed too. Last problem was that
this auto-process will launch even for command "gmake -n ...".
Solution:
Renamed Makefile target to reconfigure so that the auto-checking
is still available but must be launched explicitedly. If one
wishes to have the auto-checking as default, one may do
alias gmake "\gmake -i reconfigure; gmake \!* ".
Configuration improvement
Problem:
Arabica has a zlib library that is a dynamic lib in /usr/ncsa/lib.
Binary generated would fail to run with a missig libz.so complain
if /usr/ncsa/lib is not in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This exposed the
problem that if the binary is linked with -L$mylibpath -lxyz
where libxyz is a dynamic type, the binary can't run if $mylibpath
is not in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent) or as part of the
system default library paths (e.g., /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib).
This problem also caused failures during configure (when trying
to see what format to print long long) and during H5detect.
The base cause is because libtool does not "transfer" the
knowledge of -L$mylibpath to the wrapper file its mode=link
generates.
Solution:
bin/ltmain.sh:
Changed it so that it transfers the libpaths from -Llibpaths
to the wrapper generated. I used the already defined variable
finalize_shlibpath. Not sure it is correct to use it this way.
Need to check on this.
configure.in:
Put in a patch to transfer information from LDFLAGS to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
right before the AC_TRY_RUN. The above fix for ltmain.sh does not
work here because libtool is generated later than this point.
There should be a cleaner way to do this.
Removed the hardcode of NCSA_LT_LINK_EXE because it is no longer
needed.
commence.in:
Removed the hardcode of NCSA_LT_LINK_EXE because it is no longer
needed.
Makefile.in:
Another patch of LDFLAGS to LD_LIBRARY_PATH because I could not
make it to generate H5detect in the wrapper form of libtool.
Need to make it to use the libtool correctly. Later.
Platform tested:
arabica (solaris 2.7)
baldric (solaris 2.6)
now the dump structure contains 2 extra members that tell how to format the
data for the dataset regions(blocks and pts).
had to give h5ls values for these
in h5dump.c just initialized the values for the formatting struct.
in h5tools.c made some changes in the printing area to get the dump output to
look closer to what we wanted. the strings are currently not printing correctly.
also removed the program type variable from here.
The Dependencies files were generated in $srcdir even when
--srcdir is used. It caused conflicts if multiple hosts
are doing make sharing the same $srcdir. It also violated
the rule that --srcdir would not modify the content of $srcdir
which could be on a read-only media like a CD-ROM.
Solution:
Dependencies files are generated in the "current" directory.
Platform tested:
dangermouse (linux), modi4 (IRIX64).
Makefile.in:
Added test/ as one of the -I directories to search for header files.
Needed because <h5test.h> is used.
t_file.c t_mpi.c testphdf5.c testphdf5.h:
Added FILENAME to meet the assumption in h5test.h. (May use
CLEANUP in the future.) Moved the prefix setting to the
h5_fixname().
serial and parallel test files are tested in different file systems.
Added the global variable, paraprefix, so that it can be set via
command line option.
selections.
Also fixed bug which was not allowing the "start_point" parameter to
H5Sget_select_elem_pointlist to actually get used. It was always returning a
list of points selected which started with the beginning of the list of points.
