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| author | Dana Robinson <43805+derobins@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-07-20 12:38:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-07-20 12:38:07 (GMT) |
| commit | 363e3ecef821b4667592d158c2abc1c4846a966c (patch) | |
| tree | 7d6b197a2ab23d8ba709341c25562896b44c36e7 /release_docs/RELEASE.txt | |
| parent | 4461678fb5932436a0ce05df4b5a84a10179bb60 (diff) | |
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Removes the ability to build h5perf and h5perf_serial in standalone mode (#1897)
This feature has been broken for some time and lacks a clear use case.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 12e8fd3..67d90fe 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -132,6 +132,21 @@ New Features Tools: ------ + - Building h5perf/h5perf_serial in "standalone mode" has been removed + + Building h5perf separately from the library was added circa 2008 + in HDF5 1.6.8. It's unclear what purpose this serves and the current + implementation is currently broken. The existing files require + H5private.h and the symbols we use to determine how the copied + platform-independence scheme should be used come from H5pubconf.h, + which may not match the compiler being used to build standalone h5perf. + + Due to the maintenance overhead and lack of a clear use case, support + for building h5perf and h5perf_serial separately from the HDF5 library + has been removed. + + (DER - 2022/07/15) + - The perf tool has been removed The small `perf` tool didn't really do anything special and the name |