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| -rw-r--r-- | release_docs/RELEASE.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 94f3b75..9d6cf36 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -124,10 +124,13 @@ New Features - CMake option to use AEC (open source SZip) library instead of SZip The open source AEC library is a replacement library for SZip. In - order to use it for hdf5 the libaec CMake source was changed to add - "-fPIC" and exclude test files. Autotools does not build the - compression libraries within hdf5 builds. New option USE_LIBAEC is - required to compensate for the different files produced by AEC build. + order to use it for hdf5, the libaec CMake source was changed to add + "-fPIC" and exclude test files. A new option USE_LIBAEC is required + to compensate for the different files produced by AEC build. + + Autotools does not build the compression libraries within hdf5 builds, + but will use an installed libaec when configured as before with the + option --with-libsz=<path to libaec directory>. (ADB - 2020/04/22, OESS-65) |