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authorAllen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>2018-07-30 17:39:28 (GMT)
committerAllen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>2018-07-30 17:39:38 (GMT)
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@@ -643,6 +643,11 @@ else ()
H5_DEFAULT_PLUGINDIR "/usr/local/hdf5/lib/plugin"
endif ()
+NOTE:
+ The BUILD_STATIC_EXECS ("Build Static Executables") option is only valid
+ on some unix operating system. It adds the "-static" flag to cflags. This
+ flag is not available on windows and some modern linux systems will
+ ignore the flag.
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