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authorAllen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>2020-04-22 16:48:45 (GMT)
committerAllen Byrne <byrn@hdfgroup.org>2020-04-22 16:48:56 (GMT)
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OESS-65 add option to use AEC library in place of SZip
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@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@ New Features
Configuration:
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+ - CMake option to use AEC (open source SZip) library instead of SZip
+
+ The open source AEC library is a replacement library for SZip. In
+ order to use it for hdf5 the libaec CMake source was changed to add
+ "-fPIC" and exclude test files. Autotools does not build the
+ compression libraries within hdf5 builds. New option USE_LIBAEC is
+ required to compensate for the different files produced by AEC build.
+
+ (ADB - 2020/04/22, OESS-65)
+
- CMake ConfigureChecks.cmake file now uses CHECK_STRUCT_HAS_MEMBER
Some handcrafted tests in HDFTests.c has been removed and the CMake