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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. |