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Dennis Heimbigner 2022-04-29 17:56:01 -06:00
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@ -936,10 +936,15 @@ As part of the overall build process, a number of filters are built as shared li
— in that directory or the "plugins/.libs" subdirectory.
An option exists to allow some of those filters to be installed into a user-specified directory.
Presumably this directory is part of the value of the HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable.
The ./configure option is ````--with-plugin-dir=<absolute-directory-path>````.
The corresponding CMake option is ````-DPLUGIN_INSTALL_DIR=<absolute-directory-path>````.
If the value of the environment variable "HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH" is a single directory, then
a good value for the install directory is "$HDF5_PLUGIN_PATH", so for example:
````
./configure ... --with-plugin-dir="$HDF5_PLUGIN_DIR"
````
If this option is specified, then as part of the "install" build action,
a specified set of filter shared libraries will be copied into the specified directory.
Any existing library of the same name will be overwritten. If the specified directory