[svn-r9304] Purpose: Release maintenancehdf5-1_6_3

Description: I changed the version number to 1.6.3

Solution: Ran bin/h5vers -s 1.6.3 on eirene

Platforms tested:

Misc. update:

1 files changed, 303 insertions, 109 deletions

diff --git a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
index 63fafb8..aff42a5 100644
--- a/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/doc/html/ADGuide/RELEASE.txt
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
-HDF5 version 1.6.3-snap5 released on Sun Aug 29 20:59:47 CDT 2004
+HDF5 version 1.6.3 released on Wed Sep 22 11:30:11 CDT 2004
 ================================================================================
 
 
 INTRODUCTION
 
 This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.6.2 and
-HDF5-1.6.2-*, and contains information on the platforms tested and
-known problems in HDF5-1.6.2-*. For more details check the HISTORY.txt
+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
 file in the HDF5 source.
 
 The HDF5 documentation can be found on the NCSA ftp server
@@ -44,6 +44,31 @@ New Features
             define 'H5_USING_PURIFY' in your CFLAGS when building the library.
             QAK - 2004/07/23
 
+        - WINDOWS building,testing and installing improvements
+
+          - On Windows, FORTRAN,C++ and C projects are merged into one zip file, 
+            users can choose an option to build either FORTRAN or C++ or both 
+            with basic C library.For detailed information,
+            please read INSTALL_Windows.txt.
+
+          - On Windows, szip compression library with or without encoder can be easily
+            turned off or on when building HDF5.  For detailed information,
+            please read INSTALL_Windows.txt, especially section V. 
+  
+          - On Windows, an optional procedure for building,testing and installing
+            HDF5 from command line is provided. This procedure is supposed to be
+            convenient for experienced users, please read 
+            INSTALL_windows_From_Command_Line.txt for details.
+
+          - On Windows, an alternative short instruction document for building,
+            testing and installing HDF5 is provided. This instruction is supposed to
+            be convenient for general users, please read 
+            INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt for details.
+
+          - On Windows, h5repack,h5diff,h5ls and h5import tool tests have been added.
+          KY - 2004/9/16
+  
+
     Library:
     --------
         - Modified the way how HDF5 calculates 'pixels_per_scanline' parameter for
@@ -74,9 +99,31 @@ New Features
 
     Tools:
     ------
+        - h5repack was added to the tools suite. h5repack regenerates an HDF5 file 
+	  from another HDF5 file, optionally applying HDF5 filters (compression) 
+	  and/or chunking to the copied file. The filters options are read from 
+	  the command line. See /doc/html/Tools.html for more details.
+	  PVN - 2004/9/13
+
+        - h5dump includes new features:
+           1) Printing of dataset filters, storage layout and fill value information.
+           2) Print a list of the file contents.
+	   3) Escape non printing characters.
+	   4) Print the content of the boot block.
+	   5) Print array indices with the data (the default).
+	  These options are all switch controlled. See /doc/html/Tools.html for more details.
+	  PVN - 2004/9/13
+	      
 
     F90 API:
     --------
+        - added new subroutines:
+                h5fget_filesize_f
+                h5iget_file_id_f
+                h5premove_filter_f
+                h5zget_filter_info_f
+                                         EIP 2004/9/21
+ 
         - added new h5fget_name_f and h5fget_filesize_f subroutines
                                          EIP 2004/07/08
 
@@ -92,14 +139,14 @@ New Features
 
 Support for new platforms, languages and compilers.
 =======================================
-        - ASdded PGI Fortran support for Linux64 (x86_64) systems
+        - Added PGI Fortran support for Linux64 (x86_64) systems
                             EIP - 2004/08/19
         - Absoft compiler f95 v9.0 is supported on Linux 2.4 32bit
                             EIP - 2004/07/29 
         - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on Mac OSX with IBM XL Fortran
           compiler version 8.1. This is a default compiler.
         - HDF5 Fortran APIs are supported on MAC OSX with Absoft F95 compiler
-          version 8.2; set F9X environment varibale to f95, for example
+          version 8.2; set F9X environment variable to f95, for example
           setenv F9X f95
           Use --disable-shared --enable-static configure flags when Absoft
           compiler is used.
@@ -110,12 +157,21 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release
 
     Library
     -------
+	- Fixed parallel bug in which some processes attempted collective
+	  I/O while others did independent I/O.  Bug appeared when some
+	  processes used point selections, and others didn't.  JRM - 2004/9/15
+        - Corrected error where dataset region references were written in an
+          incorrect way on Cray machines.  PVN & QAK - 2004/09/13
+        - The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers
+          based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting        
+          an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with
+	  32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07 
         - Changed H5Dread() to not overwrite data in an application's buffer
           with garbage when accessing a chunked dataset with an undefined fill
           value and an unwritten chunk is uncountered.  QAK - 2004/08/25
         - Fixed error which could cause a core dump when a type conversion
           routine was registered after a compound datatype had been
-          converted and then an equivalment compound datatype was converted
+          converted and then an equivalent compound datatype was converted
           again.  QAK - 2004/08/07
         - Fixed memory overwrite when encoding "multi" file driver information
           for file's superblock.  QAK - 2004/08/05
@@ -163,7 +219,6 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release
 	- Fixed dtypes "sw long double -> double" failure in QSC class
 	  machines.  AKC - 2004/4/16
 
-
     Configuration
     -------------
         - Fixed the long compile time of H5detect.c when v7.x Intel Compiler
@@ -174,9 +229,21 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release
 
     Tools
     -----
-
+        - On SGI h5dump displayed only part of the data due to the bug
+          in the system printf; fixed.
+                                             EIP - 2004/09/21 
     Documentation 
     ------------- 
+        - Several descriptive errors have been fixed throughout the 
+          documentation, particularly in the reference manual (RM).
+          A selection particularly worthy of note would be these: 
+        - The H5Pset_szip description in the RM has been expanded and
+          corrected to facilitate use of SZIP compression.
+        - A note has been added to the H5Dcreate description that an
+          unexplained failure is likely to be due to a property list error 
+          that is detected only at the time of dataset creation.
+        -
+        FMB - 2004/09/21
 
     F90 API
     -------
@@ -198,27 +265,74 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.2 release
 
 Documentation
 =============
-
+    HDF5 Library documentation
+    --------------------------
+        - HDF5 C++ API Reference Manual
+          This document has been added to the HDF5 document set.  
+          The predecessor document, "HDF5 C++ Interfaces," has been removed.
+        - HDF5 C++ API Design Specification
+          A first draft of this document has been added to the HDF5 document 
+          set.  The draft has been posted on the HDF5 website and a link 
+          has been added to the HDF5 documents index (index.html at the top 
+          level of the document set).
+        - Parallel HDF5
+          In prior releases, the HDF5 document set included two parallel
+          HDF5 documents.  Those documents have been deleted and the 
+          HDF5 documents index (index.html) now links to a "Parallel HDF5" 
+          page on the HDF5 website (http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/PHDF5/).
+        - HDF5 High Level APIs
+          Links to the HDF5 High Level APIs and to the HDF5 High Level 
+          Reference Manual have been added to the HDF5 documents index
+          (index.html).
+        - HDF5 Reference Manual
+          Tools: h5repack -- A description of the new h5repack tool has been 
+              added to the Tools page.
+          Tools: h5dump -- Several new options have been added to h5dump.
+          New functions -- All new functions have been added to the RM.
+          API changes -- Relevant function descriptions have been updated in
+              instances where programming interfaces have changed. 
+        FMB - 2004/09/21
+
+    Windows installation documentation
+    ----------------------------------
+        -  INSTALL_Windows.txt has been enhanced to include instructions building 
+           HDF5 with FORTRAN and C++. 
+        -  Two optional installation documents have been added. They are
+           INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt and INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt.
+           INSTALL_Windows_Short.txt is supposed to help general users who
+           only want to build,test and install HDF5 in a quick way.
+           INSTALL_Windows_From_Command_Line.txt is supposed to help users who
+           would like to compile,test and install HDF5 in command line environment.
+        -  INSTALL_Windows_withcpp.txt and INSTALL_Windows_withF90.txt became
+           obsolete. Files are deleted from the release_docs directory.
+        KY 2004/09/16, EIP 2004/9/21
+        
 
 
 Platforms Tested
 ================
 
-    AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      xlc 6.0.0.2
-                                  xlf 8.1.0.3
-    				  xlC 6.0.0.4
+    AIX 5.1  (32 and 64-bit)      xlc 6.0.0.6
+                                  xlf 8.1.1.3
+    				  xlC 6.0.0.6
+				  mpcc_r 6.0.0.6
+                                  mpxlf_r 8.1.1.3
 				  xlc 5.0.2.5
 				  xlf 7.1.1.2
 				  xlC 5.0.2.5
 				  mpcc_r 5.0.2.5
 				  mpxlf_r 7.1.1.2
-                                  poe 3.2.0.10
-    Cray T3E sn6606 2.0.6.08      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.2
-                                  Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.2
-    Cray SV1 sn9617 10.0.1.2      Cray Standard C Version 6.6.0.2
-                                  Cray Fortran Version 3.6.0.2
-    Cray T90IEEE 10.0.0md         Cray Standard C Version 6.4.0.3
+    AIX 5.2                       xlc 6.0.0.8
+                                  xlC 6.0.0.8
+                                  xlf 8.1.1.6
+                                  mpcc_r 6.0.0.8
+                                  mpxlf_r 8.1.1.6
+    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
     HP-UX B.11.00                 HP C  HP92453-01 A.11.01.20 
@@ -228,6 +342,7 @@ Platforms Tested
     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
@@ -240,18 +355,22 @@ Platforms Tested
                                   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 7.1
-                                  Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 7.1
+          SMP ia64                Intel(R) C++ Version 8.0
+                                  Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 8.0
                                   SGI MPI
-    OSF1 V5.1                     Compaq C V6.4-014
-				  Compaq Fortran V5.5-2602
-				  Compaq Fortran V5.5-1877
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-033
-				  Compaq C++ V6.5-030
+    OSF1 V5.1                     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 
@@ -260,27 +379,35 @@ Platforms Tested
     SunOS 5.8(32 and 64 bit)      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 v4.4.2 i386     pgcc Rel 3.1-4i with mpich-1.2.4 with
+    TFLOPS r1.0.4 v4.4.3 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
+                                  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 7.1
-                                  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 7.1
+                                  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
-    MAC OS X                      Darwin 7.2
+                                  MSVC++ 6.0
+                                  DEC Visual Fortran 6.0
+
+    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 
@@ -297,94 +424,104 @@ Key:   y = tested and supported
        dna = does not apply
        ( ) = footnote appears below second table
 
-Platform                    C   C        F90    F90      C++  Shared        zlib
-                                parallel        parallel      libraries (4)
-Solaris2.7 64-bit           y   y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y             y
-Solaris2.7 32-bit           y   y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y             y
-Solaris2.8 64-bit           y   y (1)    y      y (1)    y    y             y
-Solaris2.8 32-bit           y   y        y      y (1)    y    y             y
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit           y   y (2)    y      y        y    y             y
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit           y   y (2)    n      n        n    y             y
-HPUX11.00                   y   y (1)    y      y        y    y             y
-OSF1 v5.1                   y   y        y      y        y    y             y
-T3E                         y   y (5)    y      y (5)    n    n             y
-SV1                         y   y (5)    y      y (5)    n    n             y
-T90 IEEE                    y   y (5)    y      y (5)    n    n             y
-TFLOPS                      n   y (1)    n      n        n    n             y
-AIX-5.1 32-bit              y   y        y      y        y    n             y
-AIX-5.1 64-bit              y   y        y      y        y    n             y
-WinXP Visual Studio (7)     y   n        n      n        y    y             y
-WinXP Intel                 y   n        n      n        y    y             y
-WinXP CW                    y   n        n      n        n    n             y
-Win2000 Visual Studio       y   n        y      n        y    y             y
-Win2000 Intel               y   n        y      n        y    y             y
-Mac OS X 10.3               y   n        y      n        y    y             y
-FreeBSD 4.9                 y   y (1)    n      n        y    y             y
-RedHat 7, 8 & 9 ia32        y   y (1)    y(PGI) n        y    y             y
-    W gcc (3)
-RedHat 7.3 ia32 W Intel (3) y   n        y      n        y    n             y
-RedHat 7.3 ia32 W PGI (3)   y   n        y      n        y    n             y
-RedHat 7 ia32 C Intel (3)   y   n        y      n        y    n             y
-RedHat 7.1 ia64 C Intel (3) y   n        y      n        y    n             y
-RedHat 8 & SuSe x86_64      y   n        n      n        y    n             y
-    gcc (3)
-Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64    y   n        y      n        y    y             y
-    Intel (3) 
-
-
-Platform                    static-  Thread-  SZIP  GASS  STREAM-  High-  H4/H5 
-                            exec     safe                 VFD      level  tools
-                                                                   APIs   (6)
-Solaris2.7 64-bit           x        y        y     n     y        y      n
-Solaris2.7 32-bit           x        y        y     n     y        y      y
-Solaris2.8 64-bit           x        y        y     n     y        y      n
-Solaris2.8 32-bit           x        y        y     n     y        y      y
-IRIX64_6.5 64-bit           x        y        y     y     y        y      y
-IRIX64_6.5 32-bit           x        y        y     y     y        y      y
-HPUX11.00                   x        n        y     n     y        y      y
-OSF1 v5.1                   y        n        y     n     y        y      y
-T3E                         y        n        n     n     y        y      y
-SV1                         y        n        n     n     y        y      y
-T90 IEEE                    y        n        n     n     y        y      n
-TFLOPS                      y        n        n     n     n        n      n
-AIX-5.1 32-bit              y        n        y     n     y        y      y
-AIX-5.1 64-bit              y        n        y     n     y        y      y
-WinXP Visual Studio         y        n        y     n     n        y      y
-WinXP Intel                 y        n        y     n     n        y      y
-WinXP CW                    y        n        y     n     n        y      y
-Win2000 Visual Studio       y        n        y     n     n        y      y
-Win2000 Intel               y        n        y     n     n        y      y
-Mac OS X 10.3               y        n        y     n     y        y      n
-FreeBSD 4.9                 y        y        y     n     y        y      y
-RedHat 7, 8 & 9 ia32        y        y        y     n     y        y      y
-    W gcc (3)
-RedHat 7.3 ia32 W Intel (3) y        n        y     n     y        n      n
-RedHat 7.3 ia32 W PGI (3)   y        n        y     n     y        n      n
-RedHat 7 ia32 C Intel (3)   y        n        y     n     y        y      y
-RedHat 7.1 ia64 C Intel (3) y        n        y     n     y        y      y
-RedHat 8 & SuSe x86_64      y        n        y     n     y        y      y
-    gcc (3)
-Linux 2.4 SGI Altix ia64    y        n        y     n     y        y      y
-    Intel (3) 
+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
+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
+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
+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
+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
+
 
 
 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 1.2.4
+            (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
             (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) Includes the H4toH5 Library and the h4toh5 and h5toh4 
-                utilities.
+                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 
+                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
+
 
 
 Known Problems
 ==============
+* 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.
 
 * There are two h5dump xml tests(h5dump --xml thlink.h5 and h5dump --xml tmany.h5)
@@ -416,7 +553,6 @@ Known Problems
 * The Stream VFD was not tested yet under Windows. It is not supported
   in the TFLOPS machine.
 
-
 * The ./dsets tests failed in the TFLOPS machine if the test program,
   dsets.c, is compiled with the -O option.  The hdf5 library still works
   correctly with the -O option.  The test program works fine if it is
@@ -433,7 +569,7 @@ Known Problems
   replace H5Aff.f90, H5Dff.f90 and H5Pff.f90 files in the fortran/src
   subdirectory in the top level directory with the Cray-specific files
   from the site:
-  ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.6.2/F90_source_for_Crays
+  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
@@ -466,5 +602,63 @@ Known Problems
       Testing random sw long double -> double conversions
   If -ieee is used, the converted doubles spread over the range 0.0 to 1**-308.
   If -ieee is not used, the converted double values are mostly 0.0 but
-  occassionaly as 1**-308.  This has been reported to the system staff.
+  occasionally as 1**-308.  This has been reported to the system staff.
   All other tests have passed.
+
+* 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.
+
+  This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as
+  many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs,
+  and comparing it to an exemplar.
+
+  The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer
+  inserts the extra text.  However, this may not be practical.
+
+  In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to
+  the configure and build.  This will cause "make check" to continue after
+  detecting errors in the tool tests.  However, in the case of SDSC DataStar,
+  it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand.
+
+  A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter
+  out the text added by the scheduler.  A sample script used on SDSC
+  DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it
+  for your installation.
+
+  Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item
+  on the command line which executes the test.  The script then
+  executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing
+  it on.
+
+        #!/bin/csh
+
+        set STDOUT_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stdout
+        set STDERR_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stderr
+
+        rm -f $STDOUT_FILE $STDERR_FILE
+
+        ($* > $STDOUT_FILE) >& $STDERR_FILE
+
+        set RETURN_VALUE=$status
+
+        cat $STDOUT_FILE
+
+        tail +3 $STDERR_FILE
+
+        exit $RETURN_VALUE
+
+  You get the HDF make files and test scripts to execute your filter script
+  by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
+  script prior to running configure for parallel builds.  Remember to
+  "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
+
+  Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can
+  can prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system.  On DataStar,
+  no prefix is necessary.  However on an MPICH system, the prefix might
+  have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to
+  get the serial tests to run at all.
+
+  In such cases, you will have to include the regular prefix in your
+  filter script.
+