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author | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2013-10-10 15:38:48 (GMT) |
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committer | Albert Cheng <acheng@hdfgroup.org> | 2013-10-10 15:38:48 (GMT) |
commit | 08cf10f2013b965640eaea9b9d143d4ec85f3494 (patch) | |
tree | b18ea887f1dd909997ce198878cb1f7a8dd5994c /release_docs | |
parent | 4a8ab0fe35f6a2b56d50b5e9887702f9623ac7d0 (diff) | |
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[svn-r24280] Bug: HDFFV-8534
Added a known problem of Solaris make install failure.
Updated INSTALL to state Gnu make is the preferred version of make.
Tested: eyeballed.
Diffstat (limited to 'release_docs')
-rw-r--r-- | release_docs/INSTALL | 14 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL index abf836b..8e8f46c 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL @@ -301,13 +301,13 @@ CONTENTS Intel or PGI compilers. 4.3.6. Specifying other programs - The build system has been tuned for use with GNU make but also - works with other versions of make. If the `make' command runs a - non-GNU version but a GNU version is available under a different - name (perhaps `gmake'), then HDF5 can be configured to use it by - setting the MAKE variable. Note that whatever value is used for - MAKE must also be used as the make command when building the - library: + The build system has been tuned for use with GNU make which is + the preferred version. Other versions of make may or may not work + completely. If the `make' command runs a non-GNU version but a GNU + version is available under a different name (perhaps `gmake'), then + HDF5 can be configured to use it by setting the MAKE variable. Note + that whatever value is used for MAKE must also be used as the make + command when building the library: $ MAKE=gmake ./configure $ gmake diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 29b8967..31b80f2 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -330,6 +330,9 @@ The following platforms are not supported but have been tested for this release. Known Problems ============== +* Make provided by Solaris fails in "make check". Solaris users should use + gmake to build and install the HDF5 software. (AKC - 2013/10/08 - HDFFV-8534) + * On OpenVMS, two soft conversion functions (H5T__conv_i_f and H5T__conv_f_i) have bugs. They convert data between floating-point numbers and integers. But the library's default is hard conversion. The user should avoid |