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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 9161b3c..bbef7f9 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ CONTENTS - Tested Configuration Features Summary - More Tested Platforms - Known Problems +- CMake vs. Autotools installations New Features @@ -511,3 +512,37 @@ Known Problems in the HDF5 source. Please report any new problems found to help@hdfgroup.org. + +CMake vs. Autotools installations +================================= +While both build systems produce similar results, there are differences. +Each system produces the same set of folders on linux (only CMake works +on standard Windows); bin, include, lib and share. Autotools places the +COPYING and RELEASE.txt file in the root folder, CMake places them in +the share folder. + +The bin folder contains the tools and the build scripts. Additionally, CMake +creates dynamic versions of the tools with the suffix "-shared". + build scripts + ------------- + Autotools: h5c++, h5cc, h5fc + CMake: h5c++, h5cc, h5hlc++, h5hlcc + +The include folder holds the header files and the fortran mod files. CMake +places the fortran mod files into separate shared and static subfolders, +while Autotools places one set of mod files into the include folder. Because +Cmake produces a tools library, the header files for tools will appear in +the include folder. + +The lib folder contains the library files, and CMake adds the pkgconfig +subfolder with the hdf5*.pc files used by the bin/build scripts created by +the CMake build. CMake uses links to the main library file, while autotools +builds copies library files. In addition, because CMake creates the tools +library and the C-stub libraries for the Fortran libraries, these libraries +are present only for CMake builds. The names of the szip libaries are different +between the build systems. + +The share folder will have the most differences because CMake builds include +a number of CMake specific files for support of CMakes find_package and support +for the HDF5 Examples CMake project. + |