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 %%%%1.8.5%%%%   
 
 
-The complete and final RELEASE.txt from the hdf5_1_8_5 branch will go here.
+HDF5 version 1.8.5 released on Fri Jun  4 13:27:31 CDT 2010
+================================================================================
+
+INTRODUCTION
+============
+
+This document describes the differences between HDF5-1.8.4 and HDF5 1.8.5, and
+contains information on the platforms tested and known problems in HDF5-1.8.5. 
+For more details, see the files HISTORY-1_0-1_8_0_rc3.txt and HISTORY-1_8.txt 
+in the release_docs/ directory of the HDF5 source.
+
+Links to the HDF5 1.8.5 source code, documentation, and additional materials
+can be found on the HDF5 web page at:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/products/hdf5/
+
+The HDF5 1.8.5 release can be obtained from:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html
+
+User documentation for 1.8.5 can be accessed directly at this location: 
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/
+
+New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general 
+descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New 
+in 1.8.0?" document:
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/WhatsNew180.html
+
+All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes 
+from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.5 (current 
+release) versus Release 1.8.4":
+
+     http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html
+
+If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk:
+
+     help@hdfgroup.org
+
+
+CONTENTS
+========
+
+- New Features
+- Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+- Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.4
+- Platforms Tested
+- Supported Configuration Features Summary
+- Known Problems
+
+
+New Features
+============
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - CMake Early Access: This release adds support for building HDF5 using
+      the CMake system. Initial work has targeted Windows, but other platforms
+      can be used. See the CMake.TXT file for more information. Version
+      2.8.1 of CMake is required.
+    - Configure now adds appropriate defines for supporting large (64-bit)
+      files on all systems, where supported, by default, instead of only Linux.
+      This large file support is controllable with the --enable-largefile 
+      configure option. The Linux-specific --enable-linux-lfs option has been 
+      deprecated in favor of this new option. Please note that specifying
+      --disable-large does NOT attempt to "turn off" largefile support if it
+      is natively supported by the compiler, but rather just disables 
+      configure from actively trying to add any additional compiler flags.
+      (MAM - 2010/05/05 - Bug # 1772/1434)
+    - Fixed an signal handling mask error in H5detect that might result in
+      SIGBUS or SIGSEGV failures in some platforms such as Linux on Sparc.
+      (AKC - 2010/4/28 - Bug # 1764)
+    - Fixed various "strict aliasing" problems, allowing higher levels
+      of compiler optimization (in particular, allowing '-O3' to work
+      with recent versions of GCC).  (QAK - 2010/04/26)
+    - Upgraded versions of autotools used to generate configuration suite.
+      We now use Automake 1.11.1, Autoconf 2.65, and Libtool 2.2.6b. 
+      (MAM - 2010/04/15)
+    - Added the xlc-* and mpcc_r-* BASENAME patterns to be recognized as IBM
+      compilers so that the IBM compiler options can be added properly.  This
+      allows non-system-default compiler command names (e.g. xlc-m.n.k.l) be
+      recognized. (AKC - 2009/11/26)
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Performance is substantially improved when extending a dataset with early 
+      allocation. (NAF - 2010/03/24 - Bug # 1637)
+    - Added support for filtering densely stored groups.  Many of the API
+      functions related to filters have been extended to support dense groups
+      as well as datasets.  Pipeline messages can now be stored in a group's
+      object header. (NAF/QAK - 2009/11/3)
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - None
+ 
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - h5dump: Added the new packed bits feature which prints packed bits stored
+      in an integer dataset. (AKC/ADB - 2010/5/7) 
+    - h5diff: Fixed incorrect behavior (hang) in parallel mode when specifying 
+      invalid options (ex: -v and -q). (JKM - 2010/02/17)
+    - h5diff: Added new flag --no-dangling-links (see --help for details).
+      (JKM - 2010/02/10) 
+    - h5diff: Added new flag --follow-symlinks (see --help for details).
+      (JKM - 2010/01/25)
+    - h5diff: Added a fix to correct the display of garbage values when 
+      displaying big-endian data on a little-endian machine. (JKM - 2009/11/20)
+
+    High-Level APIs
+    ---------------
+    - None
+
+    F90 API
+    -------
+    - None
+
+    C++ API
+    -------
+    - New member functions
+        + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjnameByIdx to take char* for name.
+        + Overloaded CommonFG::getObjTypeByIdx to return type name as a char*.
+          (BMR - 2010/05/10)
+        + Added DataSet::getInMemDataSize() to simplify getting the dataset's
+          data size in memory.  (BMR - 2009/07/26)
+
+
+Support for New Platforms, Languages, and Compilers
+===================================================
+    - AIX 6.1 has been added. (AKC - 2010/1/4)
+
+
+Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.4
+==========================
+
+    Configuration
+    -------------
+    - Fixed various "strict aliasing" problems, allowing higher levels
+      of compiler optimization (in particular, allowing '-O3' to work
+      with recent versions of GCC).  (QAK - 2010/04/26)
+
+    Library
+    -------
+    - Fixed a file corruption bug that could happen when shrinking a compressed
+      dataset. (NAF - 2010/05/20)
+    - Fixed some memory leaks in VL datatype conversion when strings are
+      used as fill values. (MAM - 2010/05/12 - Bug # 1826)
+    - Fixed an H5Rcreate failure when passing in a -1 for the dataspace 
+      identifier. (ADB - 2010/4/28)
+    - Fixed a bug when copying objects with NULL references with the
+      H5O_COPY_EXPAND_REFERENCE_FLAG flag set. (NAF - 2010/04/08 - Bug # 1815)
+    - Added a mechanism to the H5I interface to save returned object identifier 
+      structures for immediate re-use if needed. This addresses a potential 
+      performance issue by delaying the case when the next identifier to be
+      registered has grown so large that it wraps around and needs to be
+      checked to see whether it is available for distribution.
+      (MAM - 2010/03/15 - Bug # 1730)
+    - Files can now be concurrently opened more than once using the core file
+      driver, as long as the backing store is used. (NAF - 2010/03/09)
+    - Added support for H5O_COPY_EXPAND_EXT_LINK_FLAG to H5Ocopy.  External
+      links will now be expanded if this flag is set.
+      (NAF - 2010/03/05 - Bug # 1733)
+    - Fixed a bug where the library, when traversing an external link, would
+      reopen the source file if nothing else worked. (NAF - 2010/03/05)
+    - Fixed a bug where fractal heap identifiers for attributes and shared 
+      object header messages could be incorrectly encoded in the file for 
+      files created on big-endian platforms.  
+      Please see http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/known_problems if you 
+      suspect you have a file with this problem.  
+      (QAK - 2010/02/23 - Bug # 1755)
+    - Fixed an intermittent bug in the b-tree code which could be triggered
+      by expanding and shrinking chunked datasets in certain ways.
+      (NAF - 2010/02/16)
+    - H5Tdetect_class said a VL string is a string type.  But when it's in
+      a compound type, it said it's a VL type.  THis has been fixed to be 
+      consistent; it now always returns a string type. 
+      (SLU - 2009/12/10 - Bug # 1584)
+    - Allow "child" files from external links to be correctly located when
+      relative to a "parent" file that is opened through a symbolic link.
+      (QAK - 2009/12/01)
+
+    Parallel Library
+    ----------------
+    - Parallel mode in AIX will fail some of the testcheck_version.sh tests
+      where it treats "exit(134) the same as if process 0 had received an abort
+      signal.  Fixed.  (AKC - 2009/11/3)
+
+    Tools
+    -----
+    - Fixed h5ls to return exit code 1 (error) when a non-existent file is
+      specified. (JKM - 2010/04/27 - Bug # 1793)
+    - Fixed h5copy failure when copying a dangling link that is specified 
+      directly. (JKM - 2010/04/22 - Bug # 1817)
+    - Fixed an h5repack failure that lost attributes from a dataset of 
+      reference type. (JKM - 2010/3/25 - Bug # 1726)
+    - Fixed h5repack error that set NULL for object reference values for
+      datasets, groups, or named datatypes. (JKM - 2010/03/19 - Bug # 1814)
+
+    F90 API
+    ------
+    - None 
+
+    C++ API
+    ------
+    - The constructor PropList::PropList(id) was fixed to act properly
+      according to the nature of 'id'.  When 'id' is a property class 
+      identifier, a new property list will be created.  When 'id' is a 
+      property list identifier, a copy of the property list will be made. 
+      (BMR - 2010/5/9)
+    - The parameters 'size' and 'bufsize' in CommonFG::getLinkval and
+      CommonFG::getComment, respectively, now have default values for the
+      user's convenience.  (BMR - 2009/10/23)
+    - NULL pointer accessing was fixed.  (BMR - 2009/10/05 - Bug # 1061)
+    - Read/write methods of DataSet and Attribute classes were fixed
+      to handle string correctly.  (BMR - 2009/07/26)
+
+    High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - Fixed a bug in H5DSattach_scale, H5DSis_attached, and H5DSdetach_scale
+      caused by using the H5Tget_native_type function to determine the native
+      type for reading the REFERENCE_LIST attribute. This bug was exposed
+      on Mac PPC.  (EIP - 2010/05/22 - Bug # 1851) 
+    - Fixed a bug in the H5DSdetach_scale function when 0 bytes were   
+      allocated after the last reference to a dimension scale was removed         
+      from the list of references in a VL element of the DIMENSION_LIST 
+      attribute.  Modified the function to comply with the specification: 
+      the DIMENSION_LIST attribute is now deleted when no dimension scales 
+      are left attached.  (EIP - 2010/05/14 - Bug # 1822)
+
+    Fortran High-Level APIs:
+    ------
+    - None 
+
+
+Platforms Tested
+================
+The following platforms and compilers have been tested for this release.
+
+    AIX 5.3                       xlc 7.0.0.9, 8.0.0.20, 9.0.0.4
+    (LLNL Up)                     xlC 7.0.0.9, 8.0.0.20, 9.0.0.4
+                                  xlf 9.1.0.9, 10.1.0.9, 11.1.0.7
+                                  mpcc_r 7.0.0.9
+                                  mpxlf_r 09.01.0000.0008
+
+    AIX 6.1                       xlc 10.1.0.6
+    (NCSA BP)                     xlC 10.1.0.6
+                                  xlf 12.1.0.7
+
+    Cray XT3 (2.1.56)             cc (pgcc) 10.0-0
+    (SNL red storm)               ftn (pgf90) 10.0-0
+                                  CC (pgCC) 10.0-0
+
+    FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE i386       gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+    (duty)                        g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+                                  gcc 4.3.4 20090419
+                                  g++ 4.3.4 20090419
+                                  gfortran 4.3.4 20090419
+
+    FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE amd64      gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+    (liberty)                     g++ 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305
+                                  gcc 4.4.1 20090421
+                                  g++ 4.4.1 20090421
+                                  gfortran 4.4.1 20090421
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5xen   gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
+    #1 SMP i686 i686 i386         GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
+    (jam)                         g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
+                                  G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.93!) Apr 21 2010)
+                                  Absoft 32-bit Fortran 95 10.0.7
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ 10.4-0 32-bit
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 32-bit
+                                     applications, Version 11.1 Build 20090827
+                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
+                                     gcc 4.1.2 and GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2
+
+    Linux 2.6.18-164.el5 #1 SMP   gcc 4.1.2 20080704 and gcc 4.4.2 
+    x86_64 GNU/Linux              GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2
+    (amani)                       g++ (GCC) 4.1.2 20080704 and 4.4.2 
+                                  G95 (GCC 4.0.3 (g95 0.93!) Apr 21 2010)
+                                  Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
+                                     applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+                                     Version 11.1 Build 20090827.
+                                  PGI C, Fortran, C++ Version 10.4-0
+                                         for 32 & 64-bit target on x86-64
+                                  MPICH mpich2-1.0.8 compiled with
+                                     gcc 4.1.2 and GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.1.2
+
+    Linux 2.6.16.54-0.2.5 #1      Intel(R) C++ Version 11.0.074
+    SGI Altix SMP ia64            Intel(R) Fortran Itanium(R) Version 11.0.074
+    (cobalt)                      SGI MPI 1.38
+
+    SunOS 5.10 32- and 64-bit     Sun C 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124867-14
+    (linew)                       Sun Fortran 95 8.3 SunOS_sparc 
+                                     Patch 127000-13 
+                                  Sun C++ 5.9 SunOS_sparc Patch 124863-23
+                                  
+    Intel Xeon Linux 2.6.18-      Intel(R) C++ Version 10.0.026
+    92.1.10.el5_lustre.1.6.6smp-  Intel(R) Fortran Compiler Version 10.0.026
+    perfctr #7 SMP                Open MPI 1.2.2
+    (abe)                         MVAPICH2-0.9.8p28p2patched-intel-ofed-1.2
+                                  compiled with icc v10.0.026 and ifort 10.0.026
+                                  
+    Linux 2.6.18-76chaos #1 SMP   Intel(R) C, C++, Fortran Compilers for 
+    SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux          applications running on Intel(R) 64, 
+    (SNL Glory)                   Versions 11.1.
+    
+    Windows XP                    Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
+                                  Cygwin(1.7.5 native gcc(4.3.4) compiler and 
+                                  gfortran)
+
+    Windows XP x64                Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
+
+    Windows Vista                 Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
+
+    Windows Vista x64             Visual Studio 2008 w/ Intel Fortran 10.1
+
+    MAC OS  10.6.3 (Intel)        i686-apple-darwin10-gcc-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 
+    (pahra)                       GNU Fortran (GCC) 4.5.0 20090910
+                                  i686-apple-darwin10-g++-4.2.1 (GCC) 4.2.1 
+                                  Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers 11.1
+    
+    MAC OS  10.5.8 (Intel)        i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
+    (tejeda)
+
+    MAC OS  10.5 (PPC)            powerpc-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1
+    (juniper-w)
+
+    OpenVMS Alpha V8.3            HP C V7.3-009
+                                  HP C++ V7.3-009
+                                  HP Fortran V8.0-1-104669-48GBT      
+
+Supported Configuration Features Summary
+========================================
+
+    In the tables below
+          y   = tested and supported
+          n   = not supported or not tested in this release
+          C   = Cluster
+          W   = Workstation
+          x   = not working in this release
+          dna = does not apply
+          ( ) = footnote appears below second table
+          <blank> = testing incomplete on this feature or platform 
+
+Platform                           C        F90    F90      C++   zlib  SZIP
+                                   parallel        parallel
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                   n        y      n        y     y     y
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                   n        y      n        y     y     y
+Windows XP                           n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
+Windows XP x64                       n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
+Windows Vista                        n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
+Windows Vista x64                    n        y(4)   n(4)     y     y     y
+Mac OS X 10.5 PPC                    n        n      n        n     y     n 
+Mac OS X 10.5 Intel                  n        y      n        y     y     y
+Mac OS X 10.6 Intel                  n        y      n        y     y     y
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n        y      n        y     y     n
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit               n        y      n        y     y     n
+FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit         n        y      n        y     y     y
+RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1)  W  y        y      y        y     y     y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y        y(2)   y        y     y     y
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 Intel  W  n        y      n        y     y     n
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  n        y      n        y     y     n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y        y(3)   y        y     y     y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  n        y      n        y     y     n
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  n        y      n        y     y     y
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y        y      y        y     y     y
+RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre     C  y        y      y        y     y     n
+Cray XT3 2.1.56                      y        y      y        y     y     n
+OpenVMS Alpha V8.3                   n        y      n        y     y     n
+
+Platform                           Shared  Shared    Shared    Thread-  
+                                   C libs  F90 libs  C++ libs  safe     
+Solaris2.10 32-bit                   y       y         y         y        
+Solaris2.10 64-bit                   y       y         y         y        
+Windows XP                           y       y(4)      y         n        
+Windows XP x64                       y       y(4)      y         n        
+Windows Vista                        y       y(4)      y         n        
+Windows Vista x64                    y       y(4)      y         n        
+Mac OS X 10.5 PPC                    y       n         n         n        
+Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel)                y(5)    n         y         n        
+Mac OS X 10.6 (Intel)                y(5)    n         y         n        
+AIX 5.3 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n        
+AIX 6.1 32- and 64-bit               n       n         n         n        
+FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE 32&64 bit         y       n         y         y        
+RedHat EL4 2.6.9-42 i686 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 GNU (1)W  y       y(2)      y         y        
+RedHat EL5  2.6.18-128 i686 Intel W  y       y         y         n        
+RedHat EL5 2.6.18-128 i686 PGI    W  y       y         y         n        
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 GNU (1)  W  y       y         y         y        
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 Intel    W  y       y         y         n        
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 x86_64 PGI      W  y       y         y         n        
+SuSe Linux 2.6.16 SGI Altix ia64  C  y                           n 
+RedHat EL4 2.6.18 Xeon Lustre     C  y       y         y         n
+Cray XT3 2.1.56                      n       n         n         n
+OpenVMS Alpha V8.3                   n       n         n         n
+
+           (1) Fortran compiled with g95.
+           (2) With PGI and Absoft compilers.
+           (3) With PGI compiler for Fortran.
+           (4) Using Visual Studio 2008. (Cygwin shared libraries are not 
+               supported.)
+           (5) Shared C and C++ are disabled when Fortran is configured in.
+    Compiler versions for each platform are listed in the preceding
+    "Platforms Tested" table.
+
+
+Known Problems
+==============
+* The library's test dt_arith.c exposed a compiler's rounding problem on
+  Cygwin when converting from unsigned long long to long double.  The 
+  library's own conversion works correctly.  A macro is defined for Cygwin 
+  to skip this test until we can solve the problem.  (Please see bug #1813.)
+  SLU - 2010/5/5 
+
+* All the VFL drivers aren't backward compatible.  In H5FDpublic.h, the
+  structure H5FD_class_t changed in 1.8.  There is a new parameter added to
+  get_eoa and set_eoa callback functions.  A new callback function
+  get_type_map was added.  The public function H5FDrealloc was taken
+  out in 1.8.  The problem only happens when users define their own driver
+  for 1.6 and try to plug it into a 1.8 library.  This affects a very small
+  number of users.  (See bug report #1279.)  SLU - 2010/2/2
+
+* MinGW has a missing libstdc++.dll.a library file and will not successfully 
+  link C++ applications/tests. Do not use the enable-cxx configure option. 
+  Read all of the INSTALL_MINGW.txt file for all restrictions. 
+  ADB - 2009/11/11
+  
+* Some tests in tools/h5repack may fail in AIX systems when -q32 mode is used.
+  The error is due to insufficient memory requested. Request a large amount
+  of runtime memory by setting the following environment variable for more
+  memory.
+     LDR_CNTRL=MAXDATA=0x20000000@DSA
+  AKC - 2009/10/31
+
+* The PathScale MPI implementation, accessing a Panasas file system, would
+  cause H5Fcreate() with H5F_ACC_EXCL to fail even when the file is not
+  existing. This is due to the MPI_File_open() call failing if the amode has
+  the MPI_MODE_EXCL bit set. (See bug 1468 for details.) AKC - 2009/8/11
+ 
+* Parallel tests failed with 16 processes with data inconsistency at testphdf5
+  / dataset_readAll. Parallel tests also failed with 32 and 64 processes with
+  collective abort of all ranks at t_posix_compliant / allwrite_allread_blocks
+  with MPI IO. CMC - 2009/04/28
+
+* For gcc v4.3 and v4.4, with production mode, if -O3 is used, H5Tinit.c
+  would fail to compile. Actually bad H5Tinit.c is produced.  If -O (same
+  as -O1) is used, H5Tinit.c compiled okay but test/dt_arith would fail.
+  When -O0 (no optimizatio) is used, H5Tinit.c compilete okay and all
+  tests passed. Therefore, -O0 is imposed for v4.3 and v4.4 of gcc.
+  AKC - 2009/04/20
+
+* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh and
+  tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh will fail some of its sub-tests. These sub-tests
+  are expected to fail and should exit with a non-zero code but the yod
+  command does not propagate the exit code of the executables. Yod always
+  returns 0 if it can launch the executable.  The test suite shell expects
+  a non-zero for this particular test, therefore it concludes the test has
+  failed when it receives 0 from yod.  Skip all the "failing" test for now
+  by changing them as following.
+
+  ======== Original tools/h5ls/testh5ls.sh =========
+  TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5
+  ======== Change to ===============================
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST tgroup-1.ls 1 -w80 -r -g tgroup.h5
+  ==================================================
+
+  ======== Original tools/h5copy/testh5copy.sh =========
+  TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets  -d grp_rename
+  TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets  -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets
+  TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets
+  TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested
+  H5LSTEST $FILEOUT
+  ======== Change to ===============================
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets  -d grp_rename
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -v -s grp_dsets  -d /grp_rename/grp_dsets
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_dsets -d /E/F/grp_dsets
+  echo SKIP TOOLTEST_FAIL -i $TESTFILE -o $FILEOUT -vp -s /grp_nested -d /G/H/grp_nested
+  echo SKIP H5LSTEST $FILEOUT
+  ==================================================
+  AKC - 2008/11/10
+
+* For Red Storm, a Cray XT3 system, the yod command sometimes gives the
+  message,  "yod allocation delayed for node recovery".  This interferes with
+  test suites that do not expect seeing this message.  See the section of "Red
+  Storm" in file INSTALL_parallel for a way to deal with this problem.
+  AKC - 2008/05/28
+
+* On Intel 64 Linux cluster (RH 4, Linux 2.6.9) with Intel 10.0 compilers, 
+  use -mp -O1 compilation flags to build the libraries. A higher level of 
+  optimization causes failures in several HDF5 library tests. 
+
+* On mpich 1.2.5 and 1.2.6, if more than two processes contribute no IO and 
+  the application asks to do collective IO, we have found that when using 4 
+  processors, a simple collective write will sometimes be hung. This can be 
+  verified with t_mpi test under testpar.
+
+* A dataset created or rewritten with a v1.6.3 library or after cannot be read 
+  with the v1.6.2 library or before when the Fletcher32 EDC filter is enabled.
+  There was a bug in the calculation of the Fletcher32 checksum in the 
+  library before v1.6.3; the checksum value was not consistent between big-
+  endian and little-endian systems.  This bug was fixed in Release 1.6.3.  
+  However, after fixing the bug, the checksum value was no longer the same as 
+  before on little-endian system.  Library releases after 1.6.4 can still read 
+  datasets created or rewritten with an HDF5 library of v1.6.2 or before.  
+  SLU - 2005/6/30
+
+* On IBM AIX systems, parallel HDF5 mode will fail some tests with error
+  messages like "INFO: 0031-XXX ...".  This is from the command `poe'.
+  Set the environment variable MP_INFOLEVEL to 0 to minimize the messages
+  and run the tests again.
+
+  The tests may fail with messages like "The socket name is already in use,"  
+  but HDF5 does not use sockets.  This failure is due to problems with the 
+  poe command trying to set up the debug socket.  To resolve this problem, 
+  check to see whether there are many old /tmp/s.pedb.* files staying around.  
+  These are sockets used by the poe command and left behind due to failed 
+  commands.  First, ask your system administrator to clean them out.  
+  Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket.
+
+* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries
+  if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version
+  of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac,
+  for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a 
+  successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be 
+  fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the 
+  executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library.
+
+* There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports 
+  when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used.
+
+* On FREE-BSD systems when shared libraries are disabled, make install fails
+  in install-examples with the error '"Makefile", line 635: Need an operator'.
+  When this error occurs removing or commenting out the line "export
+  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$(LL_PATH)" (line 635 in examples/Makefile) will allow make
+  install to finish installing examples.  The problem will be fixed in the
+  next release. LRK - 2010/05/26
+
+* On cobalt, an SGI Altix SMP ia64 system, Intel compiler version 10.1 (which
+  is the default on that system) does not work properly and results in
+  failures during make check (in a static build) and make installcheck (during
+  a shared build). This appears to be a compiler optimization problem.
+  Reducing optimization by setting CFLAGS to -O1 or below resolves the issue.
+  Alternatively, using a newer version of the compiler (11.0) also works as
+  intended. MAM - 2010/06/01
 
 
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