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authorMike McGreevy <mamcgree@hdfgroup.org>2010-11-17 18:07:51 (GMT)
committerMike McGreevy <mamcgree@hdfgroup.org>2010-11-17 18:07:51 (GMT)
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[svn-r19808] Purpose:
Add "--enable-unsupported" configure flag. Description The "--enable-unsupported" configure flag allows a user to prevent configure from failing due to the use of incompatible options, such as c++ with parallel. Specifying --enable-unsupported will bypass all of configure's checks for incompatible and unsupported combinations of flags. There are no guarantees that the library will be configured in any sort of working condition, but that's the risk of using the --enable-unsupported flag. I've changed all default error messages related to unsupported option combinations to indicate that using --enable-unsupported will allow configure to complete without error. Tested: by hand on jam, tested all unsupported configure option combinations with and without the new flag, making sure the flag allows configure to finish without error. (h5committest wouldn't do any good here; it won't test the new option, and since we're enabling unsupported combinations, failures are likely to occur in build or tests with --enable-unsupported turned on anyways. That's why they're unsupported!)
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@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ New Features
Configuration:
-------------
+ - Added a new configure option, "--enable-unsupported", which can
+ be used to stop configure from preventing the use of unsupported
+ configure option combinations, such as c++ in parallel or parallel
+ HDF5 with threadsafe. Use at your own risk, as it may result in a
+ library that won't compile or run as expected!
+ (MAM - 2010/11/17 - Bug 2061)
- PHDF5 changed to use "mpiexec", instead of mpirun, as the default MPI
applications startup command as defined in the MPI-2 definition, section
4.1. (AKC - 2010/6/11 - Bug 1921)