[svn-r10225] Purpose: Release of 1.6.4hdf5-1_6_4

Description: I ran bin/h5vers to change version number to 1.6.4. Several files
             were modified by bin/h5vers. I am checking them in before
             tagging the release with hdf5-1_6_4 tag

Solution:

Platforms tested:

Misc. update:

1 files changed, 215 insertions, 197 deletions

diff --git a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
index a948795..bcb8f70 100644
--- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
-HDF5 version 1.6.4-snap7 released on Sun Feb 13 18:15:48 CST 2005
+HDF5 version 1.6.4 released on Tue Mar 15 20:38:48 CST 2005
 ================================================================================
 
-
 INTRODUCTION
-
+============
 This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.3 and
-HDF5-1.6.3-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and
-known problems in HDF5-1.6.3-*. For more details check the HISTORY.txt
+HDF5-1.6.4, and contains information on the platforms tested and
+known problems in HDF5-1.6.4. For more details check the HISTORY.txt
 file in the HDF5 source.
 
 The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
@@ -22,8 +21,9 @@ If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:
 
     hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu
 
-CONTENTS
 
+CONTENTS
+========
 - New Features
 - Support for new platforms and languages
 - Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.3
@@ -35,16 +35,26 @@ CONTENTS
 
 New Features
 ============
+    Source code distribution:
+    -------------------------
 
+    The High-Level (HL) C APIs were added to the source code distribution.
+    For HL documentation, see
+    http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/hdf5_hl/doc/RM_hdf5hl.html.
+
+    The HL library, libhdf5_hl.a(so), is built and installed by default. 
+    Use --disable-hl configure flag to disable the HL library.
 
     Library:
     --------
-        - Compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size 
-            adjustment.  The size can be increased and decreased(without
+        - We recommend you to use SZIP v2.0 with this release. 
+          For more information see
+          http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/doc_resource/SZIP/ 
+        - The compound datatype has been enhanced with a new feature of size 
+            adjustment.  The size can be increased and decreased (without
             cutting the last member).  No API change is involved.  SLU - 
             2004/10/1
-        - Removed PABLO support 
-                                2005/01/20 EIP 
+        - Removed PABLO support.  2005/01/20 EIP 
 
     Parallel Library:
     -----------------
@@ -53,43 +63,57 @@ New Features
 
     Tools:
     ------
-	- New tool, h5jam.  See reference manual.  2004/10/08	      
+	- New tool, h5jam.  See HDF5 Reference Manual.  2004/10/08	      
 
     F90 API:
     --------
+          No new features in this release.
 
     C++ API:
     --------
+	- Started using C library's reference counting in place of the class
+	  RefCounter, which existed before the C mechanism was available.  
+	  As a result, RefCounter has been removed.  2005/03/12 BMR
 
 
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
 =======================================
 
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+	- Upgraded from GNU autoconf 2.53 to autoconf 2.59.  JML - 2005/01/31
+
+
 Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.3 release
 ==================================
 
     Library
     -------
-        - H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct 
-            value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first.  It's fixed.  SLU - 
-            2005/02/08
+        - Fixed a racing condition in MPIPOSIX virtual file drive close
+	  function.  Now all processes must completed the close before any
+	  of them is returned.  This prevents some "faster" processes start
+	  accessing the file for another purpose (e.g., open with truncate)
+	  while other "slower" processes have not closed the same file with
+	  the previous purpose.  AKC - 2005/03/01
+	- H5Tget_member_value calls for enum datatype didn't return correct 
+          value if H5Tenum_valueof was called first.  It's fixed.  SLU - 
+          2005/02/08
         - For variable-length string, H5Tget_class returned H5T_STRING as its
-            class.  But H5Tdetect_class and H5Tget_member_class considered it
-            as H5T_VLEN.  This is fixed to let all these 3 functions treat it
-            as H5T_STRING.  SLU - 2005/02/08
+          class.  But H5Tdetect_class and H5Tget_member_class considered it
+          as H5T_VLEN.  This is fixed to let all these 3 functions treat it
+          as H5T_STRING.  SLU - 2005/02/08
         - The byte order of all 1-byte integer types was fixed as
-            little-endian even on a big-endian machine.  It's corrected.
-            SLU - 2005/02/07
-        - Fix segmentation fault when calling H5Fflush with an attribute that
-            hasn't had a value written to it open.  QAK - 2004/10/18
-        - Back up supporting bitfield and time types in H5Tget_native_type.  
-            Leave it to future support.  The function simply returns error 
-            message of "not support" for bitfield and time types.  
-            SLU - 2004/10/5
+          little-endian even on a big-endian machine.  It's corrected.
+          SLU - 2005/02/07
+        - Fixed segmentation fault when calling H5Fflush with an attribute that
+          hasn't had a value written to it open.  QAK - 2004/10/18
+        - Backed out support for bitfield and time types in H5Tget_native_type.
+          Leave it to future support.  The function simply returns error 
+          message of "not support" for bitfield and time types. SLU - 2004/10/5
         - Fixed address check in Core VFL driver to avoid spurious address/size
-            overflows for odd valued addresses and/or sizes.  QAK - 2004/09/27
+          overflows for odd valued addresses and/or sizes.  QAK - 2004/09/27
         - Fixed problem where chunked datasets were not able to be deleted
-            from a file under certain circumstances.  QAK - 2004/09/27/
+          from a file under certain circumstances.  QAK - 2004/09/27/
 
     Configuration
     -------------
@@ -99,39 +123,53 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.3 release
 	  code with -O3 option.  Changed enable-production default compiler
 	  option to -O2. AKC - 2004/12/06
 	- Long double is assumed to be a supported C data type.  It is a
-	  stanadard C89 type. AKC - 2004/10/22
-
+	  standard C89 type. AKC - 2004/10/22
 
     Performance
     -------------
-
+    Many changes were made to the library to improve performance,
+    especially for the variable-length datatypes and metadata cache.
+   
     Tools
     -----
+        - h5fc and h5c++ work correctly when -c compiler flag
+          is used.  EIP - 2005/03/14        
 	- Fixed h5dump to print attributes data in ASCII if -r option is used.
 	  AKC - 2004/11/18
-        - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error in formula
-            used.  QAK - 2004/10/22
+        - Fixed space utilization reported in h5ls to correct error 
+          in formula used.  QAK - 2004/10/22
 
     Documentation 
     ------------- 
 
     F90 API
     -------
-       - on windows, previously Fortran DLL built and tested failed,
-                     now Fortran DLL has been built and tested successfully
-                         with Dec Fortran 6.6c or Dec Fortran 6.0.
+       - On windows, previously Fortran DLL built and tested failed.
+         Now Fortran DLL has been built and tested successfully
+         with Dec Fortran 6.6c or Dec Fortran 6.0.
+
     C++ API
     -------
+
+
 Documentation
 =============
 
     HDF5 Library documentation
     --------------------------
+    No substantive changes to the structure or types of content in the 
+    HDF5 Library documentation.
 
     Windows installation documentation
     ----------------------------------
-        
+    1. On Windows zlib has been updated to 1.2.2. You may find the binary at
+       either http://www.zlib.net/zlib122-dll.zip or
+              ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/lib-external/zlib/bin/windows
 
+    2. Only DLLs of external libraries (zlib and szip) are linked with the 
+       HDF5 Library. We will no longer provide binary to link static library 
+       with HDF5. For details, please check INSTALL_Windows in this directory.
+        
 
 Platforms Tested
 ================
@@ -146,205 +184,194 @@ Platforms Tested
 				  xlC 5.0.2.5
 				  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
 				  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
-    AIX 5.2                       xlc 6.0.0.8
+    AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit)           xlc 6.0.0.8
+                                  xlC 6.0.0.9
+                                  xlf 8.1.1.7
+                                  mpcc_r 6.0.0.8
+                                  mpxlf_r 8.1.1.7
+    AIX 5.2 (32/64 bit, LLNL frost)    xlc 6.0.0.8
                                   xlC 6.0.0.8
-                                  xlf 8.1.1.6
+                                  xlf 8.1.1.7
                                   mpcc_r 6.0.0.8
-                                  mpxlf_r 8.1.1.6
+                                  mpxlf_r 8.1.1.7
     Cray T90 sn7001 10.0.0md      Cray Standard C Version 6.4.0.3
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.4.0.0
-    Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.3
-                                  Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.3
     Cray SV1 sn9617 10.0.1.2      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.3.6
                                   Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.3.1
     FreeBSD 4.9                   gcc 2.95.4
                                   g++ 2.95.4
+                                  gcc 3.2.3, 3.3.6, 3.4.4, 4.0.0
     HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
                                   HP F90 v2.4
                                   HP ANSI C++ B3910B A.03.13
                                   MPIch 1.2.4
+    IRIX64 6.5 (tesla -64)        MIPSpro cc 7.4.2m
+                                  F90 MIPSpro 7.4.2m
+                                  C++ MIPSpro cc 7.4.2m
     IRIX64 6.5 (64 & n32)         MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
                                   F90 MIPSpro 7.3.1.3m (64 only)
                                   C++ MIPSpro cc 7.3.1.3m
 				  mpt 1.6
-    Linux 2.4.18                  gcc 2.96, 3.3.2
-                                  g++ 3.3.2
-                                  Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1
-                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.1
-                                  PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) version 5.0-2
-                                  MPIch 1.2.4
+    Linux 2.4.20-28.7             gcc 2.96
+    (eirene, verbena)             gcc 3.3.2
+                                  PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) 
+                                  version 5.2-1
                                   Absoft Fortran compiler v9.0
-    Linux 2.4.20-8                gcc 3.3.2
-                                  PGI compilers (pgcc, pgf90, pgCC) version 5.0-2
-                                  MPIch 1.2.4
-    Linux 2.4.21-2.9.5ws #3       gcc 3.2.3 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-16)
-          SMP x86_64              g++ 3.2.3
-    Linux 2.4.21-4.ELsmp	  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.0
-    				  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.0
-				  gcc 3.4.0
-				  MPICH 1..5.2 Inmel 8.0
-    Linux 2.4.19-SMP  x86_64      gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 (SuSE Linux)
-                                  g++ 3.2.2
-    Linux 2.6.4-52smp x86_64      gcc 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux 9.1 AMD64))
-                                  PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 
-
-    Linux 2.4.21-sgi Altix 
-          SMP ia64                Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
-                                  Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.0
+                         	  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
+    				  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
+                                  MPIch 1.2.6
+    Linux 2.4.21-268-smp x86_64   gcc 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux, AMD)
+    (mir)                         PGI 5.2-1 C and F90 (with k3-32) 
+                         	  Intel(R) C++ 32-bit Version 8.1
+    				  Intel(R) Fortran 32-bit Version 8.1
+    Linux 2.4.21-sgi303r2 Altix 
+          SMP ia64                Intel(R) C++ Version 8.1
+    (cobalt)                      Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.1
                                   SGI MPI
-    OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.5-303 
+    OSF1 V5.1 (QSC)               Compaq C V6.5-011 
+                                  HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
+				  Compaq C++ V6.5-036  
+				  MPIX200_64_r13.4
+    OSF1 V5.1 (PSC)               Compaq C V6.5-303 
                                   HP Fortran V5.5A-3548
 				  Compaq C++ V6.5-040  
-				  MPI_64bit_R13
-    SunOS 5.7(32 and 64 bit)      WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
-     (Solaris 2.7)                WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C++ 5.0 
-                                  WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/10/25 
+				  MPIX200_64_r13.4
                                   FORTRAN 90 2.0 Patch 107356-04 
-    SunOS 5.8(32 and 64 bit)      Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
+    SunOS 5.8 32,46               Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C 5.3
      (Solaris 2.8)                Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 Fortran 90
                                   Sun WorkShop 6 update 2 C++ 5.3
-    TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.4.3 i386     pgcc Rel 3.1-4i with mpich-1.2.4 with
+    SunOS 5.9 32,64               Sun C 5.6 2004/07/15
+     (Solaris 2.9)                Sun Fortran 95 8.0 2004/07/15
+                                  Sun C++ 5.6 2004/07/15
+    TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.5.2 i386     pgcc Rel 3.1-4i with mpich-1.2.4 with
                                           local modifications
-    IA-32 Linux 2.4.18            gcc 2.96
-                                  Intel(R) C++ Version 7.0
-                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.0
-
     Xeon Linux 2.4.20-31.9smp_perfctr_lustre
-	                          Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
+    (tungsten)	                  Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0
-                                  
-    IA-64 Linux 2.4.16 ia64       gcc version 3.0.4
-                                  Intel(R) C++ Version 7.1
-                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.1
-
     IA-64 Linux 2.4.21.SuSE_128.bef1 ia64
-                                  Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
+    (NCSA tg-login)               Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
                                   Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 8.0
 				  mpich-gm-1.2.5..intel
-
-    Windows 2000 (NT5.0)          MSVC++ 6.0
-                                  MSVC++ .NET
-                                  DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
-                                  Intel C and F90 compilers version 7.1
-				  Code Warrior 8.0
     Windows XP                    MSVC++.NET
                                   MSVC++ 6.0
-                                  DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
-
+                                  Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6C
+                                  Intel 8.1 C++
     MAC OS X                      Darwin 7.5
                                   gcc and g++ Apple Computer, Inc. GCC 
                                   version 1175, based on gcc version 3.3.2
                                   IBM XL Fortran version 8.1 
                                   Absoft Fortran compiler v8.2
-                                  
 
 
 Supported Configuration Features Summary
 ========================================
 
-Key:   y = tested and supported
-       n = not supported or not tested in this release
-       x = not working in this release
+Key:   y   = tested and supported
+       n   = not supported or not tested in this release
+       x   = not working in this release
        dna = does not apply
        ( ) = footnote appears below second table
 
 Platform                             C        F90    F90      C++  zlib  SZIP
                                      parallel        parallel      
-Solaris2.7 64-bit                    y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y     y
-Solaris2.7 32-bit                    y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y     y
-Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y     y
-Solaris2.8 32-bit                    y        y      y (1)    y    y     y
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                    y (2)    y      y        y    y     y
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                    y (2)    n      n        n    y     y
-HPUX11.00                            y (1)    y      y        y    y     y
+Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y        y      y(1)     y    y     y
+Solaris2.8 32-bit                    y        y      y(1)     y    y     y
+Solaris2.9 64-bit                    y(1)     y      y(1)     y    y     y
+Solaris2.9 32-bit                    y(1)     y      y(1)     y    y     y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                    y(2)     y      y        y    y     y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                    y(2)     n      n        n    y     y
+HPUX11.00                            y(1)     y      y        y    y     y
 OSF1 v5.1                            y        y      y        y    y     y
 T90 IEEE                             n        y      n        n    y     n
-T3E                                  y (5)    y      y (5)    n    y     n
-SV1                                  y (5)    y      y (5)    n    y     n
-TFLOPS                               y (1)    n      n        n    y     n
+SV1                                  y(5)     y      y(5)     n    y     n
+TFLOPS                               y(1)     n      n        n    y     n
 AIX-5.1 & 5.2 32-bit                 y        y      y        y    y     y
 AIX-5.1 & 5.2 64-bit                 y        y      y        y    y     y
-WinXP Visual Studio 6.0              n        y (9)  n        y    y     y
-WinXP .Net                           n        n      n        y    y     y
-WinXP Code Warrior                   n        n      n        n    y     y
-Win2000 Visual Studio 6.0            n        y (10) n        y    y     y
-Win2000 Visual Studio Intel (6)      n        y      n        y    y     y
-Win2000 .Net                         n        n      n        y    y     y
-Mac OS X 10.3                        n        y (11) n        y    y     y
-FreeBSD 4.9                          y (1)    n      n        y    y     y
-RedHat 7   W        (3)              y (1)    y (12) n        y    y     y
+WinXP Visual Studio 6.0              n        y(9)   n        y    y     y
+WinXP .Net                           n        n      n        y(8) y     y
+Mac OS X 10.3                        n        y(10)  n        y    y     y
+FreeBSD 4.9                          y(1)     n      n        y    y     y
+RedHat 7.3  W (3)                    y(1)     y(11)  n        y    y     y
 RedHat 7.3  W Intel (3)              n        y      n        y    y     y
-RedHat 7.3  W PGI   (3)              n        y      n        y    y     y
-RedHat 8 & SuSe x86_64 gcc     (3)   n        y (13) n        y    y     y
-Linux 2.4 Xeon C Lustre Intel (3,7)  n        y      n        y    y     y
-Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C   Intel (3,8)  y        y      y        y    y     y
+RedHat 7.3  W PGI (3)                n        y      n        y    y     y
+SuSe x86_64 gcc (3,13)               n        y(12)  n        y    y     y
+SuSe x86_64 icc (3,13)               n        y(14)  n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C Lustre Intel (3,6)  n        y      n        y    y     y
+Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7)    y        y      y        y    y     y
 Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3)   y        y      y        y    y     y
 
 
-Platform                             Shared         static-  Thread-  STREAM- 
-                                     libraries (4)  exec     safe     VFD    
-Solaris2.7 64-bit                    y              x        y        y
-Solaris2.7 32-bit                    y              x        y        y
-Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y              x        y        y
-Solaris2.8 32-bit                    y              x        y        y
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                    y              y        y        y
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                    y              y        y        y
-HPUX11.00                            y              x        n        y
-OSF1 v5.1                            y              y        n        y
-T90 IEEE                             n              y        n        y
-T3E                                  n              y        n        y
-SV1                                  n              y        n        y
-TFLOPS                               n              y        n        n
-AIX-5.1 & 5.2 32-bit                 n              y        n        y
-AIX-5.1 & 5.2 64-bit                 n              y        n        y
-WinXP Visual Studio 6.0              y              y        n        n
-WinXP .Net                           y              y        n        n
-WinXP Code Warrior                   n              y        n        n
-Win2000 Visual Studio 6.0            y              y        n        n
-Win2000 Visual Studio Intel (6)      y              y        n        n
-Win2000 .Net                         y              y        n        n
-Mac OS X 10.3                        y              y        n        y
-FreeBSD 4.9                          y              y        y        y
-RedHat 7    W       (3)              y              y        y        y
-RedHat 7.3  W Intel (3)              n              y        n        y
-RedHat 7.3  W PGI   (3)              n              y        n        y
-RedHat 8 & SuSe x86_64 gcc     (3)   n              y        n        y
-Linux 2.4 Xeon C Lustre Intel (3,7)  y              y        n        y
-Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel   (3,8)  y              y        n        n
-Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel (3)   y              y        n        y
-
+Platform                             Shared        static-  Thread-  STREAM- 
+                                     libraries(4)  exec     safe     VFD    
+Solaris2.8 64-bit                    y              x       y        y
+Solaris2.8 32-bit                    y              x       y        y
+Solaris2.9 64-bit                    y              x       y        y
+Solaris2.9 32-bit                    y              x       y        y
+IRIX64_6.5 64-bit                    y              y       y        y
+IRIX64_6.5 32-bit                    y              y       y        y
+HPUX11.00                            y              x       n        y
+OSF1 v5.1                            y              y       n        y
+T90 IEEE                             n              y       n        y
+SV1                                  n              y       n        y
+TFLOPS                               n              y       n        n
+AIX-5.1 & 5.2 32-bit                 n              y       n        y
+AIX-5.1 & 5.2 64-bit                 n              y       n        y
+WinXP Visual Studio 6.0              y              y       n        n
+WinXP .Net                           y              y       n        n
+Mac OS X 10.3                        y              y       n        y
+FreeBSD 4.9                          y              y       y        y
+RedHat 7.3   W (3)                   y              y       y        y
+RedHat 7.3  W  Intel (3)             n              y       n        y
+RedHat 7.3  W  PGI (3)               n              y       n        y
+SuSe x86_64 gcc (3,13)               n              y       n        y
+SuSe x86_64 icc (3,13)               y              y(15)   n        y
+Linux 2.4 Xeon C Lustre Intel (3,6)  y              y       n        y
+Linux 2.4 SuSE ia64 C Intel (3,7)    y              y       n        n
+Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64 Intel  (3)  y              y       n        y
 
 
 Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the "Platforms Tested" 
 table found elsewhere in this file (RELEASE.txt).  Unless otherwise noted, 
 compilers used are the system compilers.
 
-Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich 1.2.4
-            (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.4
-            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated  
-                W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively
+Footnotes:  (1) Using mpich 1.2.6
+            (2) Using mpt and mpich 1.2.6.
+            (3) Linux 2.4 with GNU, Intel, and PGI compilers, as indicated.  
+                  W or C indicates workstation or cluster, respectively.
             (4) Shared libraries are provided only for the C library, 
-                except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++
-            (5) Using mpt
-            (6) Intel 7.1 compilers in Visual Studio 6.0 environment
-            (7) Linux 2.4.20-31.9.  Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre 
+                except on Windows where they are provided for C and C++.
+            (5) Using mpt.
+            (6) Linux 2.4.20-31.9.  Xeon cluster with smp_perfctr_lustre 
                 and Intel compilers
-            (8) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_128.befl.  Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
-            (9) DEC Visual Fortran 6.0 and Intel 7.1
-            (10) DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
-            (11) IBM XLF and Absoft
-            (12) PGI, Absoft
-            (13) PGI
-       FMB/EIP - 2004/09/21
-
+            (7) Linux 2.4.21, SuSE_128.befl.  Ia64 cluster with Intel compilers
+            (8) Intel 8.1
+            (9) Compaq Visual Fortran 6.6C
+           (10) IBM XLF and Absoft
+           (11) PGI, Absoft.  No shared libraries with Absoft; 
+                use '--disable-shared'.
+           (12) PGI and Intel compilers for both C and Fortran
+           (13) AMD Opteron x86_64
+           (14) ifort
+           (15) Yes with C and Fortran, but not with C++
+       FMB/EIP - 2005/03/15
 
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
+* test/big fails sometimes with the message "Possible overlap with another
+  region."  The test selects regions randomly, and this error occurs when
+  two regions overlap each other; it is an bug in the test and not in
+  HDF5.  Since the error is triggered by a random situation, it will
+  usually disappear if the test is re-run.
+
+* Cray SV1 fails to correctly convert between floating-point and "long double"
+  for software conversion.  Problem is being investigated. SLU - 2005/03/04
+
 * Newer SGI MIPSpro compilers (version 7.4.x) support C99 features but it
   has a "guard" statement in stdint.h that will #error and skip the rest
-  of the header file if C99 option is not used explicitely.  Hardset
+  of the header file if C99 option is not used explicitly.  Hardset
   $CC to c99 will resolve the problem. AKC - 2004/12/13
+
 * On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
   messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...".  This is from the command poe.
   Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
@@ -357,16 +384,12 @@ Known Problems
   Ask your system administrator to clean them out.  Lastly, request IBM
   to provide a mean to run poe without the debug socket.
 
-* h5fc and h5c++ compilation scripts have a bug: object files (*.o) cannot be
-  created when source code is compiled using h5fc or h5c++. We will provide
-  a fix. Please check ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/patches/ 
-  for the patches.
-
-* Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver information.
+* Fortran subroutine h5pget_driver_f doesn't return a correct driver 
+  information.
 
-* There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5)
-  failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and debug dll. Release and Release
-  dll work fine. 
+* There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and 
+  h5dump --xml tmany.h5) failed on windows xp with .NET for debug and 
+  debug dll. Release and Release dll work fine. 
 
 * The h5dump tests may fail to match the expected output on some platforms
   (e.g. parallel jobs, Windows) where the error messages directed to
@@ -400,10 +423,10 @@ Known Problems
   program to fail.
 
 * Certain platforms give false negatives when testing h5ls:
-    - Cray J90 and Cray T90IEEE give errors during testing when displaying
+    - Cray T90IEEE give errors during testing when displaying
       some floating-point values. These are benign differences due to
-      the different precision in the values displayed and h5ls appears to
-      be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
+      the different precision in the values displayed.
+      h5ls appears to be dumping floating-point numbers correctly.
 
 * Before building HDF5 F90 Library from source on Crays 
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
@@ -411,27 +434,13 @@ Known Problems
   from the site:
   ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF/HDF5/current/src/patches/
 
-* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran library,
-  compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90
-  complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
+* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran 
+  library, compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and 
+  fflush2.f90 complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line 
   IF (total_error .ne. 0) CALL exit (total_error)
 
-* On IA32 and IA64 systems, if you use a compiler other than GCC (such as
-  Intel's ecc or icc compilers), you will need to modify the generated
-  "libtool" program after configuration is finished. On or around line 104 of
-  the libtool file, there are lines which look like:
-
-      # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler.
-      wl=""
-
-  change these lines to this:
-
-      # How to pass a linker flag through the compiler.
-      wl="-Wl,"
-
-  UPDATE: This is now done automatically by the configure script. However, if
-  you still experience a problem, you may want to check this line in the
-  libtool file and make sure that it has the correct value.
+* Use --disable-shared configure flag if building with Absoft Fortran
+  compiler
 
 * Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
   INSTALL file sections 5.7 and 5.8
@@ -451,6 +460,15 @@ Known Problems
         setenv CXX "pgCC --instantiate=local"  for pgCC 5.02 and higher
         setenv CXX "pgCC -tlocal" for others
 
+* Fortran release DLL randomly failed with compaq visual fortran 6.6c on
+  windows. 
+
+* Fortran DLL built with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment crushed the compiler,
+  To build Fortran Static library with Intel 8.1 in .NET environment 
+  needs manually setting the project file,
+  please contact to hdfhelp@ncsa.uiuc.edu if you need to build
+  fortran static library with Intel 8.1 with .NET environment.
+
 * On at least one system, (SDSC DataStar), the scheduler (in this case
   LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run
   any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers.