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| author | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2011-05-07 06:59:29 (GMT) |
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| committer | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2011-05-07 06:59:29 (GMT) |
| commit | 88a54b790d4c3fcf96161f97192be7bad44cf156 (patch) | |
| tree | 3a28c00c07d346f13eb5768df3883668fdf7d7e4 /release_docs/RELEASE.txt | |
| parent | fc64b8d94e8d9755e8b94a9be7e3d689bf467ce5 (diff) | |
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[svn-r20770] Entered the two known problems:
1. "make install prefix=XXX" does not work with shared libraries.
2. May have to increase $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS for t_shapesame test.
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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index b0432b1..b6f6d86 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -333,6 +333,28 @@ SGI Linux 2.6.32.19 y y y y Known Problems ============== +* After the shared library support is fixed for some bugs, it is discovered + that "make prefix=XXX install" no longer work for shared libraries. It + still works correctly for static libraries. Therefore, if you want to + install the HDF5 shared libraries in location such as /usr/local/hdf5, + you need to specify it via the --prefix option during configure time. + E.g, ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 ... + (AKC - 2011/05/07 HDFFV-7583) + +* The parallel test, t_shapesame, in testpar/, may run for a long time and may + get terminated by the alarm signal. If that happens, one can increase the + alarm seconds (default is 1200 seconds = 20 minutes) by setting the + environment variable, $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS, to a larger value such as 3600 + which means 60 minutes = 1 hour. Beware that the t_shapesame test may fail + in some systems (see the "While working on the 1.8.6 release..." problem + below). If it does, it will waste more time if $HDF5_ALARM_SECONDS is set + to a larger value. (AKC - 2011/05/07) + +* Shared Fortran libraries are not quite working on AIX. While they are + generated when --enable-shared is specified, the fortran and hl/fortran + tests fail. We are looking into the issue. HL and C++ shared libraries + should now be working as intended, however. (MAM - 2011/04/20) + * The --with-mpe configure option does not work with Mpich2. AKC - 2011/03/10 * If parallel gmake (e.g., gmake -j 4) is used, the "gmake clean" command @@ -353,12 +375,6 @@ Known Problems These programs can be found at: http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/examples/known_problems/ -* The AIX --enable-shared does not quite work. It can produce a shared library - but there cannot be more than one shared libraries that are interlinking with - each other. This means only the low-level C APIs can work. The high-level APIs - will not work which is not very useful. We hope to have a solution in the next - release. (AKC - 2010/10/15) ??????? 4.18.2011. sent question to albert re: has this been fixed in 1.8.7????????????????????????? - * The library's test dt_arith.c showed a compiler's rounding problem on Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double. The library's own conversion works fine. We defined a macro for Cygwin to |