cannot compile with hdf5

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 5:03 PM, John W. Eaton <jwe at octave.org> wrote:
> On  2-Feb-2009, Petr Mikulik wrote:
>
> | I propose to put a test into configure. Once that somebody updates the API,
> | he can easily change the test condition towards newer version.
>
> I think it would be best to avoid version tests in the configure
> script.
>

I agree in general, but given that the version 1.8 becomes
increasingly common and we need 1.6, maybe a building user should at
least get an informative warning somewhere? Otherwise, we will
probably see a number of complaints for failing builds.

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RNDr. Jaroslav Hajek
computing expert
Aeronautical Research and Test Institute (VZLU)
Prague, Czech Republic
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