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@@ -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