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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