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authorDana Robinson <43805+derobins@users.noreply.github.com>2023-08-23 15:21:33 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-08-23 15:21:33 (GMT)
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Enable szip by default in Autotools (#3412)
Since libaec is so prevalent and BSD-licensed for both encode and decode, we build the szip filter by default when the szip or aec libraries are found.
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@@ -47,6 +47,12 @@ New Features
Configuration:
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+ - Autotools builds now build the szip filter by default when an appropriate
+ library is found
+
+ Since libaec is prevalent and BSD-licensed for both encoding and
+ decoding, we build the szip filter by default now.
+
- Removed CMake cross-compiling variables
* HDF5_USE_PREGEN