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author | Scott Wegner <swegner@hdfgroup.org> | 2008-05-14 19:37:45 (GMT) |
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committer | Scott Wegner <swegner@hdfgroup.org> | 2008-05-14 19:37:45 (GMT) |
commit | ea4dea20fe376d979fbd91834c2d1c880b27bfcf (patch) | |
tree | c4eee612ca7fa0e6fddee3680897e80e6278665a /release_docs | |
parent | 2b8a9569bbd34f0fd4a9187d417ffc9fa4a34bc3 (diff) | |
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[svn-r15001] Purpose: Minor Windows documentation updates
Description:
Small changes to the documentation-- update version strings to 1.8.1 and document the HDF5TestExpress variable
Diffstat (limited to 'release_docs')
-rw-r--r-- | release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt | 20 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt index b63d294..6163539 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt @@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ Preconditions: 2. Compilers Installed - 2.1 C/C++ Compilers HDF5-1.8.0 Supported + 2.1 C/C++ Compilers HDF5-1.8 Supported gcc-3.4.4 is included in Cygwin, which includes: gcc : GNU C compiler gcc-g++: GNU C++ compiler gcc-g77: GNU Fortran 77 compiler - 2.2 Fortran Compiler HDF5-1.8.0 Supported + 2.2 Fortran Compiler HDF5-1.8 Supported - HDF5-1.8.0 supports g95(GCC 4.0.1 (g95!) Jul 22 2005) and higher. + HDF5-1.8 supports g95(GCC 4.0.1 (g95!) Jul 22 2005) and higher. g95 is a free, open source Fortran 95 compiler. Users can download the g95 binaries for Cygwin in the following website: @@ -84,19 +84,19 @@ Install HDF5 on Cygwin The HDF5 source code is distributed in a variety of formats which can be unpacked with the following commands, each of which creates - an `hdf5-1.8.0' directory. + an `hdf5-1.8.1' directory. 2.1 Non-compressed tar archive (*.tar) - $ tar xf hdf5-1.8.0.tar + $ tar xf hdf5-1.8.1.tar 2.2 Gzip'd tar archive (*.tar.gz) - $ gunzip < hdf5-1.8.0.tar.gz | tar xf - + $ gunzip < hdf5-1.8.1.tar.gz | tar xf - 2.3 Bzip'd tar archive (*.tar.bz2) - $ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.8.0.tar.bz2 | tar xf - + $ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.8.1.tar.bz2 | tar xf - 3. Configuring @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Install HDF5 on Cygwin 7. Known Problems - Shared libraries can not be built on Cygwin In release 1.8.0. + Shared libraries can not be built on Cygwin In release 1.8. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt index 1facd81..20d62cf 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Preconditions: 6.2 HDF5 uses Szip version 2.0 for compression and Szip compression - software is provided with HDF5 products in 1.8.0 release. To use + software is provided with HDF5 products in 1.8.1 release. To use Szip 2.0 library, you can download Szip source codes and binaries from ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.1/bin/windows @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Preconditions: Notes: - 1. In release 1.8.0, all.zip is deprecated. Users should go to hdf5/windows + 1. As of 1.8.0, all.zip is deprecated. Users should go to hdf5/windows directory, run copy_hdf.bat first and then open all.dsw under hdf5/windows/proj/all to start building process. @@ -410,6 +410,16 @@ STEP 2: Testing HDF5 Libraries and Tools HDF5 libraries and tools should be tested to make sure that they were built correctly. +Note: The complete testing suite can take a long time to run on even fast + machines. Some of the longer tests can be automatically shortened by + defining an environment variable HDF5TestExpress. Set HDF5TestExpress + to 3 for fastest, or 0 for slowest. For example: + + set HDF5TestExpress=3 + + If the variable is unset, it takes on the value 1. + + We provide 2 options for users to test HDF5 libraries and tools. Option 1: Automatic testings @@ -1416,9 +1426,9 @@ to the earlier sections of this document for details on building and testing. Posix Threads for Windows is a open source free software. Users can download it from http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/. - HDF5 release 1.8.0 supports Pthread-Win32 2.7.0 (2005-06-04) or later. Since - pthreadVC2.dll used by HDF5 1.8.0 is the release version dll of - pthread-win32, ONLY HDF5 1.8.0 release dll are supported and tested on + HDF5 release 1.8 supports Pthread-Win32 2.7.0 (2005-06-04) or later. Since + pthreadVC2.dll used by HDF5 1.8 is the release version dll of + pthread-win32, ONLY HDF5 1.8 release dll are supported and tested on Windows XP. Pre2. Set Path for Pthread-Win32 header and library |