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author | Bill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu> | 2002-02-08 19:18:32 (GMT) |
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committer | Bill Wendling <wendling@ncsa.uiuc.edu> | 2002-02-08 19:18:32 (GMT) |
commit | 7903039885c0b7248d15985e294cb03f885b82d6 (patch) | |
tree | 309dacab19ee09f33f075bdba95f4e39de8fa106 | |
parent | 06dadd7378644a6da24086e6a9f057a53f7d5238 (diff) | |
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[svn-r4929] Purpose:
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Description:
Changed the examples from "hdf5-1.4.2*" to "hdf5-1.4.3*". Some minor
reformatting so that everything looks nice and consistant.
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diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL index 19a673b..1178897 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL @@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots in a limited number of formats. + 2. Warnings about compilers OUTPUT FROM THE FOLLOWING COMPILERS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY SUSPECT WHEN USED TO COMPILE THE HDF5 LIBRARY, ESPECIALLY IF @@ -95,20 +96,21 @@ The MicroSoft Win32 5.0 compiler is unable to cast unsigned long long values to doubles. HDF5 works around this bug by first casting to signed long long and then to double. - A link warning: defaultlib "LIBC" conflicts with use of other - libs appears for debug version of VC++ 6.0. This warning will - not affect building and testing hdf5 libraries. - + + A link warning: defaultlib "LIBC" conflicts with use of other libs + appears for debug version of VC++ 6.0. This warning will not affect + building and testing hdf5 libraries. + 3. Quick installation For those that don't like to read ;-) the following steps can be used to configure, build, test, and install the HDF5 library, header files, and support programs. - $ gunzip < hdf5-1.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf - - $ cd hdf5-1.4.2 - $ make check - $ make install + $ gunzip < hdf5-1.4.3.tar.gz | tar xf - + $ cd hdf5-1.4.3 + $ make check + $ make install 3.1. TFLOPS Users of the Intel TFLOPS machine, after reading this file, @@ -138,27 +140,28 @@ when HDF5 is configured then only a serial version of HDF5 can be built. + 5. Full installation instructions for source distributions 5.1. Unpacking the distribution The HDF5 source code is distributed in a variety of formats which can be unpacked with the following commands, each of which - creates an `hdf5-1.4.2' directory. + creates an `hdf5-1.4.3' directory. 5.1.1. Non-compressed tar archive (*.tar) - $ tar xf hdf5-1.4.2.tar + $ tar xf hdf5-1.4.3.tar 5.1.2. Compressed tar archive (*.tar.Z) - $ uncompress -c < hdf5-1.4.2.tar.Z | tar xf - + $ uncompress -c < hdf5-1.4.3.tar.Z | tar xf - 5.1.3. Gzip'd tar archive (*.tar.gz) - $ gunzip < hdf5-1.4.2.tar.gz | tar xf - + $ gunzip < hdf5-1.4.3.tar.gz | tar xf - 5.1.4. Bzip'd tar archive (*.tar.bz2) - $ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.4.2.tar.bz2 | tar xf - + $ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.4.3.tar.bz2 | tar xf - 5.2. Source vs. Build Directories On most systems the build can occur in a directory other than the @@ -175,14 +178,14 @@ pages say about VPATH, which is the facility used by HDF5 makefiles for this feature: - The VPATH facility is a derivation of the undocumented VPATH - feature in the System V Release 3 version of make. System V - Release 4 has a new VPATH implementation, much like the - pmake(1) .PATH feature. This new feature is also undocumented - in the standard System V Release 4 manual pages. For this - reason it is not available in the IRIX version of make. The - VPATH facility should not be used with the new parallel make - option. + The VPATH facility is a derivation of the undocumented + VPATH feature in the System V Release 3 version of make. + System V Release 4 has a new VPATH implementation, much + like the pmake(1) .PATH feature. This new feature is also + undocumented in the standard System V Release 4 manual + pages. For this reason it is not available in the IRIX + version of make. The VPATH facility should not be used + with the new parallel make option. 5.3. Configuring HDF5 uses the GNU autoconf system for configuration, which @@ -282,7 +285,6 @@ fortran/src/H5Pff.f90 Check for "Comment if on T3E ..." comment and comment out specified lines. - 5.3.5. Specifying other programs The build system has been tuned for use with GNU make but works @@ -441,7 +443,6 @@ See the documentation on the Virtual File Layer for more details about the use of this driver. - 5.4. Building The library, confidence tests, and programs can be build by saying just: @@ -516,6 +517,7 @@ ./tools/h5import (a demo) ./tools/h4toh5 (hdf4 to hdf5 file converter) + 6. Using the Library Please see the User Manual in the doc/html directory. @@ -527,5 +529,6 @@ libhdf5.settings file in the same directory as the static and/or shared hdf5 libraries. + 7. Support Support is described in the README file. |