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-rw-r--r-- | release_docs/INSTALL | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 21 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL b/release_docs/INSTALL index 7b350e0..c1c7df6 100644 --- a/release_docs/INSTALL +++ b/release_docs/INSTALL @@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ CONTENTS tar file can be found at ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/lib-external/szip/. To configure the HDF5 Library with the Szip compression filter, use - the '--enable-szlib=/PATH_TO_SZIP' flag. For more information, see + the '--with-szlib=/PATH_TO_SZIP' flag. For more information, see section 4.3.7, "Specifying other libraries and headers." Starting with release 1.6.3, Szip library binaries are distributed diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index c907a4f..646b33e 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ New Features Configuration: ------------- + - Configure now generates Makefiles that build in "silent make mode" + by default in which compile and link lines are significantly + simplified for clarity. To override this and view actual compile and + link lines during building, the --disable-silent-rules flag can be used + at configure time, or the 'make' command can be followed by V=1, to + indicate a "verbose" make. (MAM - 2011/4/14). - Added mpicc and mpif90 as the default C and Fortran compilers for Linux systems when --enable-parallel is specified but no $CC or $FC is defined. (AKC - 2011/2/7) @@ -87,7 +93,7 @@ New Features -------- - Added ability to cache files opened through external links. Added new public functions H5Pset_elink_file_cache_size(), - H5Pget_elink_file_cache_size(), and H5Frelease_file_cache(). + H5Pget_elink_file_cache_size(), and H5Fclear_elink_file_cache(). (NAF - 2011/02/17) - Removed all old code for Metraowerks compilers, bracketed by __MWERKS__). Metraowerks compiler is long gone. (AKC - 2010/11/17) @@ -457,6 +463,15 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Configuration ------------- + - Removed config/ibm-aix6.x. All IBM-AIX settings are in one file, + ibm-aix. (AKC - 2011/4/14) + - Shared C libraries are no longer disabled on Mac when Fortran + is enabled. Shared Fortran libraries are still not supported on Mac, + so configure will disable them by default, but this is overridable + with the new --enable-unsupported configure option. The configure + summary has been updated to reflect the fact that the shared-ness of + the C++/Fortran wrapper libraries may not align with the C library. + (MAM - 04/11/2011 - HDFFV-4353). - Removed recognition of the parallel compilers of LAM(hcc) and ChMPIon(cmpicc) since we have no access to these two MPI implementations and cannot verify their correctness. (AKC - 2010/7/14 - Bug 1921) @@ -510,6 +525,8 @@ Bug Fixes since HDF5-1.8.0 release Tools ----- + - Updated h5dump test case script to prevent entire test failure upon + source directory is read-only. Bug# HDFFV-4342 (JKM 2011/4/12) - Updated to unify option name to '--enable-error-stack' for printing HDF5 error stack messages for HDF5 tools. h5ls and h5dump for now. For h5ls, this replaces "-e/--errors" option, which is deprecated. @@ -832,8 +849,6 @@ Known Problems ============== * --with-mpe configure option does not work with Mpich2. AKC - 2011/03/10) -* examples/run-all-ex.sh does not work on Cygwin. (NAF - 2011/02/11) - * While working on the 1.8.6 release of HDF5, a bug was discovered that can occur when reading from a dataset in parallel shortly after it has been written to collectively. The issue was exposed by a new test in the parallel |