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authorJames Laird <jlaird@hdfgroup.org>2005-03-10 20:52:34 (GMT)
committerJames Laird <jlaird@hdfgroup.org>2005-03-10 20:52:34 (GMT)
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[svn-r10179] Purpose:
Automake update cleanup and minor changes Description: Removed macros in acsite.m4 that are no longer used. Switched to using autoconf's AC_LANG_PUSH(Fortran) instead of old AC_LANG_FORTRAN9X macro. Switched to using AC_LANG_PUSH() and AC_LANG_POP() (from old AC_LANG_X). Added ifort to list of Fortran compilers configure will look for. Added a note about automake change to Release Notes. Platforms tested: copper, modi4 (parallel and serial), eirene
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@@ -36,6 +36,28 @@ New Features
Configuration:
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+ - HDF5 now uses automake 1.9.5 to generate Makefiles.in.
+ This has a number of effects on users:
+ The Fortran compiler should be set using the environment
+ variable $FC, not $F9X. F9X still works, but is depreciated.
+ The output of make may be different. This should be only a
+ cosmetic effect.
+ make depened (or make dep) is no longer recognized, since automake
+ handles dependency tracking.
+ Some new configure options exist. --enable-dependency-tracking
+ and --disable-dependency-tracking are used to control automake's
+ dependency tracking. Dependencies are on by default *on most
+ platforms and compilers*. If --enable-dependency-tracking is
+ used, they will be enabled on any platform. However, this can
+ slow down builds or even cause build errors in some cases.
+ Likewise, --disable-dependency-tracking can speed up builds and
+ avoid some build errors.
+ Some make targets have alternate names. make check-install and
+ make installcheck do the same thing, for instance.
+ pmake on IRIX can be invoked from the root directory, but the
+ -V flag must be used to invoke it in any subdirectory or it
+ will give an error about undefined variables.
+ JML 2005/01 - 2005/03
- Hardware conversion between long double and integers is also added.
SLU 2005/02/10
- Started to support software conversion between long double and