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| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index b19d029..9e00052 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -411,16 +411,13 @@ Known Problems commands. First, ask your system administrator to clean them out. Lastly, request IBM to provide a means to run poe without the debug socket. -* The --enable-static-exec configure flag fails to compile for Solaris - platforms. This is due to the fact that not all of the system libraries on - Solaris are available in a static format. - - The --enable-static-exec configure flag also fails to correctly compile - on IBM SP2 platforms for serial mode. The parallel mode works fine with - this option. - - It is suggested that you do not use this option on these platforms - during configuration. +* The --enable-static-exec configure flag will only statically link libraries + if the static version of that library is present. If only the shared version + of a library exists (i.e., most system libraries on Solaris, AIX, and Mac, + for example, only have shared versions), the flag should still result in a + successful compilation, but note that the installed executables will not be + fully static. Thus, the only guarantee on these systems is that the + executable is statically linked with just the HDF5 library. * There is also a configure error on Altix machines that incorrectly reports when a version of Szip without an encoder is being used. |