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| author | Elena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org> | 2010-07-29 15:17:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Elena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org> | 2010-07-29 15:17:05 (GMT) |
| commit | 0357b5ad527e074238324d0985e38f3ba94ed9f5 (patch) | |
| tree | dc2489724cf54b2bfcb8b7e5997ea600adbfd45d /release_docs/INSTALL | |
| parent | dd01261ac1c0d80971c6a86a4b67909f5f426e91 (diff) | |
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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.
Diffstat (limited to 'release_docs/INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/INSTALL | 22 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL index 3b84354..7b350e0 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL @@ -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: |