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diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt
index bd9d4bc..d1ff388 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
Building and installation instructions for Alpha Open VMS
This file is under construction
- VMS port is not finished yet.
- EIP May 5, 2006
+ EIP June 1, 2006
CONTENTS
--------
-
+
1. Obtaining HDF5
2. Building C, Fortran and C++ libraries
3. Testing HDF5 libraries and tools
@@ -20,11 +19,18 @@
Please see INSTALL file in this directory for downloading instructions.
2. Building C, Fortran and C++ libraries
- Use tar command to untar HDF5 source ball
+
+ IMPORTANT: This version REQUIRES GNU ZLIB librarary to be installed
+ on a system. You may download the source code from
+ http://www.zlib.net/
+
+ - Use tar command to untar HDF5 source ball
tar -xvf hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.tar
- Change default directory to [.hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.vms]
- and run
+
+ - Change default directory to [.hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.vms]
+ - Modify make.com file to point to the installed ZLIB library.
+ - Run
@make
command. This command file will build
C library, tests, and utilities
@@ -70,9 +76,11 @@
5. Known problems
- - There is no support for files bigger than 2GB
- - There is no support for filters including deflated compression filter and
- szip compression filters.
+ - dsets test fails for test_scleoffset_double and
+ test_scleoffset_double_2 tests when G_FLOAT double is used
+ 06/01/2006 EIP
+ - There is no support for files bigger than 2GB
+ - There is no support for szip compression filter.
- There are few C and Fortran tests that fail (C mtime, Fortran file_close and
multifile driver tests, probably more; all major tests succeed).
- Mulitifile driver has not been tested yet.