Bring r14737 back from the 1.8 branch: Fix bug which would
incorrectly encode the member offsets for compound datatypes whose size was
between 256 & 511 bytes, when the "use the latest format" feature was enabled.
Tested on:
Mac OS X/32 10.5.2 (amazon) w/debug
FreeBSD/32 6.2 (duty) w/production
Tools
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- h5import bug on Windows w/binary datasets. fread in windows needs a binary file
to be open with rb instead of r otherwise it terminates execution if an end
of file character is found on the input file. Besides that the binary file
generated needs to be open with wb , otherwise an end of line character is
read twice. PVN - 2008/2/19
Description:
List the new HL C examples that were added in the last checkin. Rather than listing each one individually, we give a brief summary, and instructions for how to test them.
Description:
This is the same patch that Mike McGreevy helped me with on the 1.8 branch. The latest cygwin DLL has trouble with the global timezone variable. Now in configure, we target CYGWIN with a case statement, and avoid the problem.
Tested:
Cygwin on WinXP
Description:
The collection of HL C examples that we distribute for Windows is incomplete. I wasn't aware of it until Pedro pointed it out, because we use different (although similar) names for the generated files. This checkin changes the naming to follow Linux, in preparation to add the rest of the HL examples to Windows.
Note: I believe I've updated the MANIFEST accordingly, but I may have missed something-- I'll check on Linux shortly after this commit.
Tested:
VS2005 on WinXP
VS.NET on WinXP
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"
Description:
We've run into a bug that was introduced in the latest version of Cygwin, that breaks C99 code using the 'timezone' global variable. As a workaround, we use the -ansi flag, which makes everything compile/link/test correctly
Tested: Cygwin on WinXP
Description:
Wrote documentation on how to use the 1.6 API for a user application-- this replaces the outdated documentation we previously had.
Tested: VS2005 with HDFEOS5
Description:
There are many tests that are unsupported on MinGW because of the way it handles certain syntax in shell scripts (particularly '/'). As a result, we list a few tests that users must comment out in various Makefile.in's. This checkin updates the location of h5stat-- it was formerly in ./tools/misc, but has been moved it ./tools/h5stat.
Tested:
MinGW on WinXP
Removed the stream-vfd from the basic library code.
(The stream-vfd source files are not removed yet but the MANIFEST has been
updated to NOT release those stream-vfd source files.)
Platforms tested:
Kagiso and smirom.
Then test the release tar ball in kagiso.
Description:
Previously, we provided a static h5tinit.c with our Windows distribution, and provided instructions to optionally generate it. Now, we will incorporate it as part of the default build process, to emulate other platforms more closely.
Tested:
VS6
VS2005
Description:
We recently uploaded new versions of our external library binaries to support more compiler configurations. This check-in is to point to the new location in our documentation.
Tested:
None
Tools:
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- h5dump lists groups and attributes in requested orders (by name and
creation order, both ascending and descending). PVN - 2007/10/5
- h5import imports string (text) data. PVN - 2007/10/5
Description:
This updates the command-line build process to handle structural changes we've made in the HDF5 project files. Also, we add support for two new options:
/fort - to build Fortran libraries
/useenv - to allow users to specify include and libpath directories on the command line as well.
Also updated documentation to reflect these change.
Tested:
VS2005 on WinXP
Description:
There are minor changes in the testing process for Windows with the new test scripts. Specifically, the test output is output to the screen, rather than redirected into files, by default. Also, it is much easier to test parts modularly, and installing DLLs is one step, instead of separated batch files.
Tested:
None, only documentation changed.
