Configuration feature
Description:
'make install' now tests both static and shared libraries if both are installed.
Solution:
Previously, shared libraries were only tested when static libraries were not installed.
Also cleaned up line in commence.am that was including HL library in all Makefiles.
Platforms tested:
mir (Makefile change only)
Description: Data conversion from long double to (unsigned) long long
returns some incorrect values on Mac OS 10.4 and SGI IRIX64 6.5. The
conversions start to go wrong when the long double is
20041683600089727.779961 (0x4351ccf385ebc8a0bfcc2a...). If adjusting
the values higher by assigning 0x...c8a0cf... or 0x...c8a0df..., the
converted values go wild.
Solution: Detect this error in configure.in and disable compiler
conversions from long double to (unsigned) long long for Mac OS 10.4
and IRIX64 6.5.
Platforms tested: h5committest, Mac OS 10.4, and IRIX64 6.5.
Description: Added test script and two test files in the tools/misc/testfiles
directory for testing h5stat tool; modified Makefile.am in tools/misc
and configure.in files to run the new test script; reran bin/recofigure
to update relevant configuration files; updated MANIFEST
Solution:
Platforms tested: heping with in place and srcdir builds; will do more testing
after the checkin.
Misc. update:
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 - bugzilla #552
Description:
On Cray X1, trying to use : as an argument confused the system.
Solution:
Added a test in configure to see if : as an argument is bad.
If so, skipped the test.
Platforms tested:
mir, Cray X1 (change to configure only)
Description: Ran /bin/h5vers to change suffix to alpha4 after creating hdf5-1.8.0-alpha3
tar ball and tagging the release with hdf5_1_8_0_alpha3 tag
Solution:
Platforms tested:
Misc. update:
Description: There was some logical confusion about the value of the macro
H5_HW_FP_TO_LLONG_NOT_WORKS. It's supposed to be true for Windows, but false
for Unix machines.
Solution: Corrected.
Platforms tested: fuss(Linux) and amazon(MacOS 10.4) - simple change.
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.
Bug fix.
Description:
Some machines (e.g., HPUX) will have off64_t defined but no support
for stat64 unless certain LargeFile macro is turned on. This caused
the last fix on H5private not quite right which caused compiling failures.
Solution:
Added stat64 and fstat64 tests and then will use them only if they
are supported.
Platforms tested:
Tested on kelgia, copper and heping (pll).
(Compiling alright but tests for kelgia and heping are not done.
expect no problems.)
bug fix.
Description:
Previous H5private.h would attempt to use the off64_t/stat64/etc
by checking just sizeof __INT64 being 8. This caused errors in
some machines like alpha cluster which is a 64bit machine. Its
compiler supports the type __int64 but it does not support
off64_t since its off_t is already 64bits big. The above code
casued the compiler to complain about the unknown off64_t and
such.
Solution:
H5private.h:
Changed the code to use the pseudo standard of off64_t/stat64/etc
only if sizeof(off_t) is not 64 bits AND sizeof(off64_t) exists
and is 64 bits. This assumes if off64_t is defined, all those
stat64, fstat64, etc are supported too.
configure.in:
configure:
Added the testing of sizeof(off64_t) to support the above solution.
Platforms tested:
h5committested. Also tested at LANL QSC.
Bug fix
Description:
Removed some extra compiler flags that were being added in configure
Solution:
After my previous changes, some of autoconf's macros were realizing that
we had no CFLAGS defined and were helpfully supplying some to us, which
were causing errors on some platforms.
Initializing all of the *FLAGS variables prevented this from happening.
Platforms tested:
mir (minor change)
H5_CFLAGS change
Description:
Converted a few platforms to use H5_CFLAGS to "test the waters"
Solution:
Modified a few config/* files to use H5_CFLAGS for non-essential
flags.
Platforms tested:
mir, heping
Several bug fixes
Description:
Added config file for Cray X1 (previous file was misnamed)
Simplified some code in hyperslab.c test that seemed to have been
confusing compiler on Cray X1.
Fixed typo in config/commence.am
Cleaned up hl/src/Makefile.am
Solution:
All four fixes should be straightforward. The failure on Cray was
very difficult to debug, but involved arithmetic errors.
This change seems to fix it.
Platforms tested:
heping, copper, sol, some Cray X1 (more testing when system comes back up)
Description: Here is what I did:
modified MANIFEST according Quincey's instructions to fix
the problem exposed by bin/release (compilation fails
because some header files were not included in the distribution)
fixed small typo and modified include_HEADERS line in
src/Makefile.am to address the problem exposed by bin/release
ran bin/h5vers to change version number to 1.8.0-alpha0
ran bin/release to release tar ball to the ftp server
Solution:
Platforms tested: mir MANY,MANY,MANY times
Misc. update:
Changed to production mode default on, debug mode default off to prepare
for 1.8.0alpha0 release.
Platforms tested:
Tested in heping but only did the configure and compared the output with
previous default output. The changes were pretty simple.
Configuration change
Description:
Stream-VFD is now disabled when parallel is enabled.
Solution:
Stream-VFD was causing trouble on some platforms when both it and
parallel HDF5 were being used. This is a pretty odd use case, so
we now disable stream vfd when parallel is being used.
This required moving the test for the stream vfd after the test
for parallel HDF5 in configure.in.
Platforms tested:
mir, modi4 (configure change only)
new feature
Description:
1) separated the HL library into "public" and "private" header files, with the same caracteristics as the basic library
2) added the public headers to hdf5.h (with a conditional include macro, defined in configure.in)
3) added the path to HL in all Makefile.am 's , because of the inclusion in hdf5.h
Solution:
Platforms tested:
linux 32, 64
AIX
solaris
with fortran and c++
(one packet table example fails)
Misc. update:
Code cleanup
Description:
Add "--enable-group-revision" configure flag (defaulting to off).
Also, "prettify" the configure summary a bit
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir)
Linux 2.4 32-bit (heping)
Linux 2.4 64-bit (mir)
Solaris 2.9 (shanti)
Bug fix
Description:
Made parallel fortran configuration happier on modi4
Solution:
The old configure macro, AC_TRY_LINK, added a couple of extra lines to
the Fortran test program which the new macro doesn't. Added those
lines manually.
Platforms tested:
modi4, copper (change should affect only parallel fortran)
Configure cleanup
Description:
Removed unused macros, migrated to non-depreciated macros.
Solution:
The changes to use standard AC_TRY_LIB macros earlier this week
seem not to have broken anything, so I deleted the local macros in
acsite.m4 (with an eye to eventually deleting the rest of the file and
using only autoconf-supported macros).
Replaced the depreciated AC_TRY_LIB with AC_LIB_IFELSE to shut up
warnings during reconfigure.
Platforms tested:
mir, copper (should be just cleanup)
configure refactoring
Description:
Migrated a couple of Fortran macros to standard autoconf macros
Solution:
HDF5 had a couple of macros, AC_TRY_FLINK and AC_CHECK_FLIB, which were
adaptions of standard autoconf macros before those macros supported
F90.
Now Autoconf seems to have better support for f90, so its standard macros
AC_TRY_LINK and AC_CHECK_LIB can do this job (and move the burden of
supporting those macros to autoconf).
Platforms tested:
heping, modi4, copper
Disable debugging feature
Description:
Disable the "function stack" by default & take out it's dependency on
the "enable-debug" configure flag. The function stack code can slow things
down quite a bit and shouldn't be enabled for the upcoming alpha testing.
Platforms tested:
FreeBSD 4.11 (sleipnir)
Linux 2.4 (chicago)
Mac OSX (amazon)
Bug fix/Feature
Description:
Modify the library to use rand_r, when available, instead of srand. If
rand_r is not available, it will try to use srandom/random, and then finally
fall back to srand/rand.
Solution:
A couple places in the library use the srand() function to seed the random
number generator. This can cause problems on certain platforms and could theoretically
cause problems for users who expect a certain sequence of random numbers following their
own call to srand().
Most platforms have an implementation of rand_r, which is identical to rand, except that
it allows for explicit storage of the seed value. The configure script will now check
for the existence of rand_r to facilitate its use in the library.
Two new functions are added, to replace the macros HDsrand/HDrand. These functions are HDrand and
HDsrand. HDrand will call rand_r, if available, or random(), if available, and fall back to rand() if neither
of those is available. HDsrand will store the seed value locally, if rand_r is available. Otherwise, it will call
srandom if available, and fall back to srand otherwise.
Platforms tested:
heping, mir. Really need to test on Red Storm, since that platform motivated this fix, but the machine
is currently not available.
Misc. update:
Moved gif2h5 tool to hl directory
Description:
Added a tools directory under the hl directory and moved the gif2h5 tool
to that directory.
Solution:
The gif2h5 tool was originally built in the tools directory, but this
introduced dependency issues that required special checks in the
Makefiles.am and required the top-level build order to be changed
because it depended on the HL library.
For simplicity in the Makefiles now and in the future, the gif2h5 tool
was moved to be underneath the hl library.
Platforms tested:
mir, copper, modi4, shanti
Supports for collective chunk IO inside parallel HDF5
Description:
Added a macro hdf5_mpi_special_collective_io_works to filter out
some mpi-io packages that don't support collective IO for no IO
contributions in some processes.
Solution:
Using AC_CACHE_VAL to do the job.
Platforms tested:
Parallel:
IBM AIX 5.2(copper)
Linux (heping) mpich-1.2.6
SDSC Teragrid mpich-1.2.5
Linux(Tungsten) mpich-1.2.6
Altix(NCSA cobalt)
Seq:
Linux(heping)
Misc. update:
Added high-level example directories
Description:
Refactored common code out of examples Makefiles.am, added high-level
example directories, added packet table examples.
Solution:
Examples now draw from a common config/examples.am file, which
contains rules for installing, uninstalling, and cleaning examples.
High-level example directories are mostly empty, except for the
C and C++ packet table tests.
Platforms tested:
mir, sleipnir, copper, shanti
Feature.
Description:
Removed the entry for tflops which has retired.
Added a special --host entry for redstorm.
This allows "configure --host=redstorm" for building in RedStorm.
Platforms tested:
Red Storm.
Unstable format version marker.
Description:
This marks the Check in baseline for compact group revisions,
which radically revises the source code for managing groups and object headers.
Earlier versions (1.7.52 or earlier) have the original format. This version
and later have the unstable format until further notice.
Platforms tested:
h5committested.
New feature
Description:
Check in baseline for compact group revisions, which radically revises the
source code for managing groups and object headers.
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
This initiates the "unstable" phase of the 1.7.x branch, leading up
to the 1.8.0 release. Please test this code, but do _NOT_ keep files created
with it - the format will change again before the release and you will not
be able to read your old files!!!
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!! WARNING!!!!
Solution:
There's too many changes to really describe them all, but some of them
include:
- Stop abusing the H5G_entry_t structure and split it into two separate
structures for non-symbol table node use within the library: H5O_loc_t
for object locations in a file and H5G_name_t to store the path to
an opened object. H5G_entry_t is now only used for storing symbol
table entries on disk.
- Retire H5G_namei() in favor of a more general mechanism for traversing
group paths and issuing callbacks on objects located. This gets us out
of the business of hacking H5G_namei() for new features, generally.
- Revised H5O* routines to take a H5O_loc_t instead of H5G_entry_t
- Lots more...
Platforms tested:
h5committested and maybe another dozen configurations.... :-)
Bug fix/feature
Description:
Added support for -shlib in h5fc and h5c++.
Made check-install use -shlib when only shared libraries have been installed.
Solution:
h5fc and h5c++ didn't recognize -shlib. Stole code from h5cc to link against
shared libraries.
When static libraries are disabled, the examples Makefiles will automatically
use the -shlib option to link against shared libraries. Thus,
--disable-static and make check-install should work together.
Platforms tested:
heping(disable-static, enable-static, fortran, c++), modi4 (disable-static, fortran, c++, parallel, enable-static)
Bug fix
Description:
Changed configure.in to use an environment variable TR to set the path
to the tr utility.
Solution:
There are two kind of tr on Solaris with slightly different syntax.
HDF5's configure relies on the "standard" tr. Traditionally, HDF5ers
have needed to make sure that the "right" tr was found before the
wrong one in their path; now they can use an environment variable.
Platforms tested:
mir, shanti, sol
Misc. update:
Forgot to update release notes. Off to do that now.
Makefile bug fix
Description:
Previously, automake didn't output rules to build perform/mpi-perf or
the test/gen_* programs.
Now these can be built by typing 'make mpi-perf' (or 'make foo') or by
configuring with --enable-build-all.
Solution:
Automake doesn't like having rules for programs it doesn't build. Tricked
it by having these programs built "sometimes"--whenever the user enables
--build-all. This should be used mostly for testing and to ensure that
these helper programs compile.
***IMPORTANT***
These programs do *not* currently compile. When --enable-build-all is used
(not the default), gen_new_fill fails because it uses an old API. This is
an existing "bug" that has simply been exposed by this checkin.
Platforms tested:
sleipnir, modi4, sol
Misc. update:
Bug fix
Description:
Some platforms complain that tcp.h is present but cannot be compiled.
Solution:
This is because tcp.h needs in.h to be included.
Checked for netinet/in.h and included it when netinet/tcp.h is being
checked.
Platforms tested:
mir, cu11
Bug fix
Description:
Using the -xarch=v9 flag to specify 64-bit compilation breaks C++ shared
libraries.
Disable shared C++ libraries if this flag is used.
Solution:
Instead of trying to disable compilers which recognize the -xarch flag,
grep for it in CXX, CXXFLAGS, etc.
Platforms tested:
modi4, shanti, sleipnir
Misc. update:
Update to RELEASE and build instructions will be forthcoming once
shared Fortran/C++ libraries are regularly passing the Daily Tests.
