cannot compile with hdf5

[Petr Mikulik]

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Petr Mikulik <mikulik at physics.muni.cz> wrote:
> > I have tried to compile octave 3.0.4 rc3 tarball, configured with HDF5.
> > Octave fails to compile, see below. The same happens also for 3.0.3.
> > There are the following libraries under OpenSUSE 11.1:
> >        libhdf5_hl0-1.8.2-1.1
> >        hdf5-devel-1.8.2-1.1
> >        libhdf5-0-1.8.2-1.1
> >        hdf5-1.8.2-1.1
> >
> This is a known problem, caused by the incompatible API changes
> between HDF5 1.5 and 1.8. I think there's no need to support both the
> APIs, but someone needs to modify the relevant code to adapt to the
> 1.8 API. So far, there has been no volunteer. Apparently hdf5 is not
> much used amongst Octave developers/users.

Could the ./configure test the API and disable building against HDF5 <1.8?

I don't use HDF5 but Octave autodetects it during ./configure and then fails 
during make which is annoying.


BTW, recently I have sent a small testing program QhullCrashTest.c to 
detect crashing Qhull library. Is there an autoconf guru who would add it to 
the configure script?

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Petr Mikulik