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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-HDF5 version 1.7.37 released on Sun Sep 12 04:03:26 CDT 2004
+HDF5 version 1.7.38 released on Sun Sep 26 04:46:18 CDT 2004
================================================================================
@@ -180,10 +180,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.6.0 release
Library
-------
+ - Fixed parallel bug in which some processes attempted collective
+ I/O while others did independent I/O. Bug appeared when some
+ processes used point selections, and others didn't. JRM - 2004/9/15
+ - Corrected error where dataset region references were written in an
+ incorrect way on Cray machines. PVN & QAK - 2004/09/13
- The H5Tget_native_type now determines the native type for integers
- based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting
- an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with
- 32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07
+ based on the precision. This is to avoid cases of wrongly converting
+ an int to a short in machines that have a short of 8 bytes but with
+ 32bit precision (e.g Cray SV1). PVN - 2004/09/07
- Changed H5Dread() to not overwrite data in an application's buffer
with garbage when accessing a chunked dataset with an undefined
fill value and an unwritten chunk is uncountered. QAK - 2004/08/25
@@ -627,3 +632,60 @@ ftp://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/pub/outgoing/hdf5/hdf5-1.6.2/F90_source_for_Crays
* Information about building with PGI and Intel compilers is available in
INSTALL file sections 5.7 and 5.8
+
+* On at least one system, (SDSC DataStar), the scheduler (in this case
+ LoadLeveler) sends job status updates to standard error when you run
+ any executable that was compiled with the parallel compilers.
+
+ This causes problems when running "make check" on parallel builds, as
+ many of the tool tests function by saving the output from test runs,
+ and comparing it to an exemplar.
+
+ The best solution is to reconfigure the target system so it no longer
+ inserts the extra text. However, this may not be practical.
+
+ In such cases, one solution is to "setenv HDF5_Make_Ignore yes" prior to
+ the configure and build. This will cause "make check" to continue after
+ detecting errors in the tool tests. However, in the case of SDSC DataStar,
+ it also leaves you with some 150 "failed" tests to examine by hand.
+
+ A second solution is to write a script to run serial tests and filter
+ out the text added by the scheduler. A sample script used on SDSC
+ DataStar is given below, but you will probably have to customize it
+ for your installation.
+
+ Observe that the basic idea is to insert the script as the first item
+ on the command line which executes the the test. The script then
+ executes the test and filters out the offending text before passing
+ it on.
+
+ #!/bin/csh
+
+ set STDOUT_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stdout
+ set STDERR_FILE=~/bin/serial_filter.stderr
+
+ rm -f $STDOUT_FILE $STDERR_FILE
+
+ ($* > $STDOUT_FILE) >& $STDERR_FILE
+
+ set RETURN_VALUE=$status
+
+ cat $STDOUT_FILE
+
+ tail +3 $STDERR_FILE
+
+ exit $RETURN_VALUE
+
+ You get the HDF make files and test scipts to execute your filter script
+ by setting the environment variable "RUNSERIAL" to the full path of the
+ script prior to running configure for parallel builds. Remember to
+ "unsetenv RUNSERIAL" before running configure for a serial build.
+
+ Note that the RUNSERIAL environment variable exists so that we can
+ can prefix serial runs as necessary on the target system. On DataStar,
+ no prefix is necessary. However on an MPICH system, the prefix might
+ have to be set to something like "/usr/local/mpi/bin/mpirun -np 1" to
+ get the serial tests to run at all.
+
+ In such cases, you will have to include the regular prefix in your
+ filter script.