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@@ -1256,6 +1256,13 @@ Known Problems
from the site:
ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.6.2/F90_source_for_Crays
+* Not all platforms behave correctly with szip's shared libraries. Szip is
+ disabled in these cases, and a message is relayed at configure time. Static
+ libraries should be working on all systems that support szip, and should be
+ used when shared libraries are unavailable. There is also a configure error
+ on Altix machines that incorrectly reports when a version of szip without
+ an encoder is being used.
+
* On some platforms that use Intel and Absoft compilers to build HDF5 fortran library,
compilation may fail for fortranlib_test.f90, fflush1.f90 and fflush2.f90
complaining about exit subroutine. Comment out the line