hdf5/INSTALL_MAINT
Robb Matzke 4bf629adc9 [svn-r435] ./INSTALL
./INSTALL_MAINT
./README
./RELEASE
	Partially updated for second alpha, but haven't updated
	version numbers yet.

./src/H5.c
./src/H5A.c
./src/H5AC.c
./src/H5B.c
./src/H5D.c
./src/H5F.c
./src/H5Fcore.c
./src/H5Ffamily.c
./src/H5Fistore.c
./src/H5Fmpio.c
./src/H5Fsec2.c
./src/H5Fsplit.c
./src/H5Fstdio.c
./src/H5G.c
./src/H5Gnode.c
./src/H5HG.c
./src/H5HL.c
./src/H5I.c
./src/H5MM.c
./src/H5MMprivate.h
./src/H5O.c
./src/H5Oattr.c
./src/H5Ocomp.c
./src/H5Ocont.c
./src/H5Odtype.c
./src/H5Oefl.c
./src/H5Olayout.c
./src/H5Oname.c
./src/H5Osdspace.c
./src/H5Oshared.c
./src/H5Ostab.c
./src/H5P.c
./src/H5S.c
./src/H5T.c
./src/H5Tconv.c
./src/H5detect.c
./test/hyperslab.c
./test/istore.c
	Changed memory allocation functions so they fail instead of
	dumping core.  The `x' was removed from the name to remind us
	of that: H5MM_xmalloc() -> H5MM_malloc(), etc.

	H5MM_calloc() takes one argument like H5MM_malloc() instead of
	two like calloc() because we almost always called it with `1'
	for one of the arguments anyway.  The only difference between
	the two functions is that H5MM_calloc() returns memory which
	is initialized to zero.

./src/H5Gent.c
./src/H5Gprivate.h
	Removed H5G_ent_calloc() since it wasn't used.

./src/H5Fistore.c
	Fixed a bug found by Albert.  Thanks, Albert!  This fix
	combined with the changes to memory allocation prevent the
	library from failing an assertion if the application uses an
	unreasonable size for chunks (like Alberts 10000x10000x4).

./src/H5MF.c
./src/H5MFprivate.h
	Changed H5MF_free() to H5MF_xfree() since calling it with an
	undefined address is allowed.
1998-06-22 22:41:22 -05:00

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Information for HDF5 maintainers:
* You can run make from any directory. However, running in a
subdirectory only knows how to build things in that directory and
below. However, all makefiles know when their target depends on
something outside the local directory tree:
$ cd test
$ make
make: *** No rule to make target ../src/libhdf5.a
* All Makefiles understand the following targets:
all -- build locally.
install -- install libs, headers, progs.
uninstall -- remove installed files.
mostlyclean -- remove temp files (eg, *.o but not *.a).
clean -- mostlyclean plus libs and progs.
distclean -- all non-distributed files.
maintainer-clean -- all derived files but H5config.h.in and configure.
* Most Makefiles also understand:
TAGS -- build a tags table
dep, depend -- recalculate source dependencies
lib -- build just the libraries w/o programs
* If you have personal preferences for which make, compiler, compiler
flags, preprocessor flags, etc., that you use and you don't want to
set environment variables, then use a site configuration file.
When configure starts, it looks in the config directory for files
whose name is some combination of the CPU name, vendor, and
operating system in this order:
CPU-VENDOR-OS
VENDOR-OS
CPU-VENDOR
OS
VENDOR
CPU
The first file which is found is sourced and can therefore affect
the behavior of the rest of configure. See config/BlankForm for the
template.
* If you use GNU make along with gcc the Makefile will contain targets
that automatically maintain a list of source interdependencies; you
seldom have to say `make clean'. I say `seldom' because if you
change how one `*.h' file includes other `*.h' files you'll have
to force an update.
To force an update of all dependency information remove the
`.depend' file from each directory and type `make'. For
instance:
$ cd $HDF5_HOME
$ find . -name .depend -exec rm {} \;
$ make
If you're not using GNU make and gcc then dependencies come from
".distdep" files in each directory. Those files are generated on
GNU systems and inserted into the Makefile's by running
config.status (which happens near the end of configure).
* If you use GNU make along with gcc then the Perl script `trace' is
run just before dependencies are calculated to update any H5TRACE()
calls that might appear in the file. Otherwise, after changing the
type of a function (return type or argument types) one should run
`trace' manually on those source files (e.g., ../bin/trace *.c).
* Object files stay in the directory and are added to the library as a
final step instead of placing the file in the library immediately
and removing it from the directory. The reason is three-fold:
1. Most versions of make don't allow `$(LIB)($(SRC:.c=.o))'
which makes it necessary to have two lists of files, one
that ends with `.c' and the other that has the library
name wrapped around each `.o' file.
2. Some versions of make/ar have problems with modification
times of archive members.
3. Adding object files immediately causes problems on SMP
machines where make is doing more than one thing at a
time.
* When using GNU make on an SMP you can cause it to compile more than
one thing at a time. At the top of the source tree invoke make as
$ make -j -l6
which causes make to fork as many children as possible as long as
the load average doesn't go above 6. In subdirectories one can say
$ make -j2
which limits the number of children to two (this doesn't work at the
top level because the `-j2' is not passed to recursive makes).