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authorElena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org>2010-07-29 15:17:05 (GMT)
committerElena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org>2010-07-29 15:17:05 (GMT)
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[svn-r19148] Maintenance: Removed misleading information about the HDF4-to-HDF5 tools. The tools became
a part of the h4h5tools distribution long time ago, but the INSTALL file was not updated in the development branch and slipped into 1.8 releases and current trunk.
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@@ -370,14 +370,12 @@ CONTENTS
LDFLAGS=-L/home/robb/lib \
./configure
- HDF5 uses the zlib library for two purposes: it provides support
- for the HDF5 deflate data compression filter, and it is used by
- the h5toh4 converter and the h4toh5 converter in support of
- HDF4. Configure searches the standard places (plus those specified
- above with the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables) for the zlib
- headers and library. The search can be disabled by specifying
- `--without-zlib' or alternate directories can be specified with
- `--with-zlib=INCDIR,LIBDIR' or through the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
+ HDF5 uses the zlib library to support the HDF5 deflate
+ data compression filter. Configure searches the standard places
+ (plus those specified above with the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS variables)
+ for the zlib headers and library. The search can be disabled by
+ specifying `--without-zlib' or alternate directories can be specified
+ with `--with-zlib=INCDIR,LIBDIR' or through the CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
variables:
$ ./configure --with-zlib=/usr/unsup/include,/usr/unsup/lib
@@ -386,14 +384,6 @@ CONTENTS
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/unsup/lib \
./configure
- The HDF5-to-HDF4 and HDF4-to-HDF5 conversion tool requires the
- HDF4 library and header files, which are detected the same way as
- zlib. The switch to give to configure is `--with-hdf4'. Note
- that HDF5 requires a newer version of zlib than the one shipped
- with some versions of HDF4. Also, unless you have the "correct"
- version of HDF4, the confidence testing will fail in the tools
- directory.
-
HDF5 includes Szip as a predefined compression method (see 3.2).
To enable Szip compression, the HDF5 Library must be configured
and built using the Szip Library: