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@@ -10,15 +10,15 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. format uncompressed or compressed with compress, gzip, or bzip2. - The HDF team also makes snapshots of the source code available - on a regular basis but these. These snapshots are unsupported - (that is, the HDF team will not release a bug-fix on a - particular snapshot; rather any bug fixes will be rolled into - the next snapshot). Furthermore, the snapshots have only been - tested on a few machines and may not test correctly for - parallel applications. Snapshots can be found at + The HDF team also makes snapshots of the source code available + on a regular basis. These snapshots are unsupported (that is, + the HDF team will not release a bug-fix on a particular + snapshot; rather any bug fixes will be rolled into the next + snapshot). Furthermore, the snapshots have only been tested on + a few machines and may not test correctly for parallel + applications. Snapshots can be found at ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/snapshots in a - limited number for formats. + limited number of formats. * Warnings about compilers OUTPUT FROM THE FOLLOWING COMPILERS SHOULD BE EXTREMELY @@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. library, header files, and support programs. - $ gunzip <hdf5-1.0.0.tar.gz |tar xf - - $ cd hdf5-1.0.0 + $ gunzip <hdf5-1.2.0.tar.gz |tar xf - + $ cd hdf5-1.2.0 $ make check $ make install @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. ** Zlib The HDF5 library has a predefined compression filter that uses the "deflate" method for chunked datatsets. If zlib-1.1.2 or - later is found then hdf5 will use it, otherwise HDF5's + later is found then HDF5 will use it, otherwise HDF5's predefined compression method will degenerate to a no-op (the compression filter will succeed but the data will not be compressed). @@ -82,19 +82,19 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. ** Unpacking the distribution The HDF5 source code is distributed in a variety of formats which can be unpacked with the following commands, each of - which creates an `hdf5-1.0.0' directory. + which creates an `hdf5-1.2.0' directory. *** Non-compressed tar archive (*.tar) - $ tar xf hdf5-1.0.0.tar + $ tar xf hdf5-1.2.0.tar *** Compressed tar archive (*.tar.Z) - $ uncompress -c <hdf5-1.0.0.tar.Z |tar xf - + $ uncompress -c <hdf5-1.2.0.tar.Z |tar xf - *** Gzip'd tar archive (*.tar.gz) - $ gunzip <hdf5-1.0.0.tar.gz |tar xf - + $ gunzip <hdf5-1.2.0.tar.gz |tar xf - *** Bzip'd tar archive (*.tar.bz2) - $ bunzip2 <hdf5-1.0.0.tar.gz |tar xf - + $ bunzip2 <hdf5-1.2.0.tar.gz |tar xf - ** Configuring HDF5 uses the GNU autoconf system for configuration, which @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. than /usr/local specify the path with the `--prefix=PATH' switch: - $ ./configure --prefix=/home/robb + $ ./configure --prefix=$HOME If shared libraries are being built (the default) then the final home of the shared library must be specified with this @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is hdf5-1.3.0 released on Wed Jul 7 15:56:44 CDT 1999 +This is hdf5-1.3.0 currently under development Please refer to the INSTALL file for installation instructions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |