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authorMuQun Yang <ymuqun@hdfgroup.org>2001-10-05 16:59:21 (GMT)
committerMuQun Yang <ymuqun@hdfgroup.org>2001-10-05 16:59:21 (GMT)
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[svn-r4523]
Purpose: add new information and delete old windows and h4toh5 information on release.txt. Description: 1. add a note to mention release dll will work after installing service pack 5 of VS6.0. 2. delete the fixed bugs on windows(libc.lib warnings and h4toh5 image handlings) Solution: Platforms tested:
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 40dcb45..f88e90b 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -213,7 +213,12 @@ Platforms Tested
Known Problems
==============
-* DLLs do not work on Windows 98 (and probably on NT and 2000 too)
+* DLLs do not work on Windows 98
+
+* RELEASE DLLs will fail on some tests on Windows 2000 with Microsoft visual
+ studio 6.0 due to memory allocation problems caused by compiler.
+ Users are encouraged to go to microsoft site to find and install
+ visual studio 6.0 service pack 5. After that, release dlls will work.
* The stream-vfd test uses ip port 10007 for testing. If another
application is already using that port address, the test will hang
@@ -243,12 +248,6 @@ Known Problems
* SunOS 5.6 with C WorkShop Compilers 4.2: Hyperslab selections will
fail if library is compiled using optimization of any level.
-* When building hdf5 tools and applications on windows platform, a linking
- warning: defaultlib "LIBC" conflicts with use of other libs will appear
- on debug version when running VC++6.0. This warning doesn't affect
- building and testing hdf5 applications. We will continue investigating
- this.
-
* h5toh4 converter fails two cases (tstr.h5 and tmany.h5) for release dll
version on windows 2000 and NT. The reason is possibly due to windows
NT DLL convention on freeing memory. It seems that memory cannot be
@@ -286,14 +285,4 @@ Known Problems
ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/ougoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.4.0-beta/F90_source_for_Crays
-* The h4toh5 utility produces images that do not correctly conform
- to the HDF5 Image and Palette Specification.
-
- http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/doc/ImageSpec.html
-
- Several required HDF5 attributes are omitted, and the dataspace is
- reversed (i.e., the ht. and width of the image dataset is incorrectly
- described.) For more information, please see:
-
- http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/H5Image/ImageDetails.htm