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authorQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2000-11-21 20:06:48 (GMT)
committerQuincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org>2000-11-21 20:06:48 (GMT)
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[svn-r2989] Purpose:
Updating for release. Description: Added descriptions of the configure options that have been added to the library recently.
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instance, to enable symbolic debugging of a production version
of HDF5 one might say:
- $ CFLAGS=-g ./confgure --enable-production
+ $ CFLAGS=-g ./configure --enable-production
5.3.4. Compiling HDF5 wrapper libraries
One can optionally build the Fortran 90 and/or C++ interface to
@@ -407,6 +407,25 @@
parallelizm on a distributed multi-processor system. Read the
file INSTALL_parallel for detailed explanations.
+5.3.11. Threadsafe capability
+ The HDF5 library can be configured to be thread-safe (on a very
+ large scale) with the with the '--enable-threadsafe' flag to
+ configure. Read the file doc/TechNotes/ThreadSafeLibrary.html
+ for further details.
+
+5.3.12. Backward compatibility
+ The 1.4 version of the HDF5 library can be configured to enable
+ access to functions that were present in the 1.2 version, but removed
+ from the current version with the '--enable-hdf5v1_2' configure
+ flag.
+
+5.3.13. Network stream capability
+ The HDF5 library can be configured with a network stream file
+ driver with the '--enable-stream-vfd' configure flag. This option
+ compiles the "stream" Virtual File Driver into the main library.
+ 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