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-rw-r--r--release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt16
-rw-r--r--release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt20
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
index b63d294..6163539 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Cygwin.txt
@@ -23,16 +23,16 @@ Preconditions:
2. Compilers Installed
- 2.1 C/C++ Compilers HDF5-1.8.0 Supported
+ 2.1 C/C++ Compilers HDF5-1.8 Supported
gcc-3.4.4 is included in Cygwin, which includes:
gcc : GNU C compiler
gcc-g++: GNU C++ compiler
gcc-g77: GNU Fortran 77 compiler
- 2.2 Fortran Compiler HDF5-1.8.0 Supported
+ 2.2 Fortran Compiler HDF5-1.8 Supported
- HDF5-1.8.0 supports g95(GCC 4.0.1 (g95!) Jul 22 2005) and higher.
+ HDF5-1.8 supports g95(GCC 4.0.1 (g95!) Jul 22 2005) and higher.
g95 is a free, open source Fortran 95 compiler. Users can
download the g95 binaries for Cygwin in the following website:
@@ -84,19 +84,19 @@ Install HDF5 on Cygwin
The HDF5 source code is distributed in a variety of formats which
can be unpacked with the following commands, each of which creates
- an `hdf5-1.8.0' directory.
+ an `hdf5-1.8.1' directory.
2.1 Non-compressed tar archive (*.tar)
- $ tar xf hdf5-1.8.0.tar
+ $ tar xf hdf5-1.8.1.tar
2.2 Gzip'd tar archive (*.tar.gz)
- $ gunzip < hdf5-1.8.0.tar.gz | tar xf -
+ $ gunzip < hdf5-1.8.1.tar.gz | tar xf -
2.3 Bzip'd tar archive (*.tar.bz2)
- $ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.8.0.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
+ $ bunzip2 < hdf5-1.8.1.tar.bz2 | tar xf -
3. Configuring
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ Install HDF5 on Cygwin
7. Known Problems
- Shared libraries can not be built on Cygwin In release 1.8.0.
+ Shared libraries can not be built on Cygwin In release 1.8.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
index 1facd81..20d62cf 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_Windows.txt
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ Preconditions:
6.2 HDF5 uses Szip version 2.0 for compression and Szip compression
- software is provided with HDF5 products in 1.8.0 release. To use
+ software is provided with HDF5 products in 1.8.1 release. To use
Szip 2.0 library, you can download Szip source codes and binaries from
ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/2.1/bin/windows
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Preconditions:
Notes:
- 1. In release 1.8.0, all.zip is deprecated. Users should go to hdf5/windows
+ 1. As of 1.8.0, all.zip is deprecated. Users should go to hdf5/windows
directory, run copy_hdf.bat first and then open all.dsw under
hdf5/windows/proj/all to start building process.
@@ -410,6 +410,16 @@ STEP 2: Testing HDF5 Libraries and Tools
HDF5 libraries and tools should be tested to make sure that they were built
correctly.
+Note: The complete testing suite can take a long time to run on even fast
+ machines. Some of the longer tests can be automatically shortened by
+ defining an environment variable HDF5TestExpress. Set HDF5TestExpress
+ to 3 for fastest, or 0 for slowest. For example:
+
+ set HDF5TestExpress=3
+
+ If the variable is unset, it takes on the value 1.
+
+
We provide 2 options for users to test HDF5 libraries and tools.
Option 1: Automatic testings
@@ -1416,9 +1426,9 @@ to the earlier sections of this document for details on building and testing.
Posix Threads for Windows is a open source free software. Users can download
it from http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32/.
- HDF5 release 1.8.0 supports Pthread-Win32 2.7.0 (2005-06-04) or later. Since
- pthreadVC2.dll used by HDF5 1.8.0 is the release version dll of
- pthread-win32, ONLY HDF5 1.8.0 release dll are supported and tested on
+ HDF5 release 1.8 supports Pthread-Win32 2.7.0 (2005-06-04) or later. Since
+ pthreadVC2.dll used by HDF5 1.8 is the release version dll of
+ pthread-win32, ONLY HDF5 1.8 release dll are supported and tested on
Windows XP.
Pre2. Set Path for Pthread-Win32 header and library