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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 57534f9..4c44a97 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -17,21 +17,21 @@ The HDF5 1.8.21 release can be obtained from: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain518.html -User documentation for the snapshot can be accessed directly at this location: +Links to HDF5 documentation can be found on The HDF5 web page: - https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ + https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5 New features in the HDF5-1.8.x release series, including brief general descriptions of some new and modified APIs, are described in the "What's New in 1.8.0?" document: - https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/WhatsNew180.html + https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdf5/ All new and modified APIs are listed in detail in the "HDF5 Software Changes from Release to Release" document, in the section "Release 1.8.22 (current release) versus Release 1.8.21 - https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc1.8/ADGuide/Changes.html + https://portal.hdfgroup.org/display/HDF5/HDF5+Application+Developer%27s+Guide If you have any questions or comments, please send them to the HDF Help Desk: @@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ CONTENTS - Supported Configuration Features Summary - More Tested Platforms - Known Problems +- CMake vs. Autotools installations New Features @@ -319,3 +320,39 @@ Known Problems Known problems in previous releases can be found in the HISTORY*.txt files in the HDF5 source. Please report any new problems found to help@hdfgroup.org. + + +CMake vs. Autotools installations +================================= +While both build systems produce similar results, there are differences. +Each system produces the same set of folders on linux (only CMake works +on standard Windows); bin, include, lib and share. Autotools places the +COPYING and RELEASE.txt file in the root folder, CMake places them in +the share folder. + +The bin folder contains the tools and the build scripts. Additionally, CMake +creates dynamic versions of the tools with the suffix "-shared". Autotools +installs one set of tools depending on the "--enable-shared" configuration +option. + build scripts + ------------- + Autotools: h5c++, h5cc, h5fc + CMake: h5c++, h5cc, h5hlc++, h5hlcc + +The include folder holds the header files and the fortran mod files. CMake +places the fortran mod files into separate shared and static subfolders, +while Autotools places one set of mod files into the include folder. Because +CMake produces a tools library, the header files for tools will appear in +the include folder. + +The lib folder contains the library files, and CMake adds the pkgconfig +subfolder with the hdf5*.pc files used by the bin/build scripts created by +the CMake build. CMake separates the C interface code from the fortran code by +creating C-stub libraries for each Fortran library. In addition, only CMake +installs the tools library. The names of the szip libraries are different +between the build systems. + +The share folder will have the most differences because CMake builds include +a number of CMake specific files for support of CMake's find_package and support +for the HDF5 Examples CMake project. + |