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@@ -96,6 +96,30 @@ INSTALL.ascired for instructions. *** Bzip'd tar archive (*.tar.bz2) $ bunzip2 <hdf5-1.2.0.tar.gz |tar xf - +** Source vs. Build Directories + On most systems the build can occur in a directory other than + the source directory, allowing multiple concurrent builds + and/or read-only source code. In order to accomplish this, one + should create a build directory, cd into that directory, and + run the `configure' script found in the source directory + (configure details are below). + + Unfortunately, this does not work on recent Irix platforms + (6.5? and later) because that `make' doesn't understand the + VPATH variable. However, hdf5 also supports Irix `pmake' which + has a .PATH target which serves a similar purpose. Here's what + the man pages say about VPATH, which is the facility used by + HDF5 makefiles for this feature: + + The VPATH facility is a derivation of the undocumented + VPATH feature in the System V Release 3 version of make. + System V Release 4 has a new VPATH implementation, much + like the pmake(1) .PATH feature. This new feature is also + undocumented in the standard System V Release 4 manual + pages. For this reason it is not available in the IRIX + version of make. The VPATH facility should not be used + with the new parallel make option. + ** Configuring HDF5 uses the GNU autoconf system for configuration, which detects various features of the host system and creates the |