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authorAlbert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org>2002-06-10 18:10:33 (GMT)
committerAlbert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org>2002-06-10 18:10:33 (GMT)
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[svn-r5574] Added instruction of setting the test directory for parallel tests.
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@@ -202,3 +202,13 @@ will print informational essages stating the failure but will not exit
with non-zero code. Failure to support file size greater than 2GB is
not a fatal error for HDF5 becuase HDF5 can use other file-drivers such
as families of files to by pass the file size limit.
+
+By default, the parallel tests use /tmp/$LOGIN as the test directory.
+This can be override by the environment variable $HDF5_PARAPREFIX.
+For example, if the tests should use directory /PFS/user/me, do
+ HDF5_PARAPREFIX=/PFS/user/me
+ export HDF5_PARAPREFIX
+ make check
+
+(In some batch job system, you many need to hardset HDF5_PARAPREFIX in
+the shell initial files like .profile, .cshrc, etc.)