From 39ebe8cf684f91f4daa77167c52319c25667fe0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Elena Pourmal <epourmal@hdfgroup.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:25:01 -0500
Subject: [svn-r12390] Purpose: Maintenance

Description: Updated VMS installation instructions to reflect support
             for the deflate filter; documented scale+offset test failures
             when G_FLOAT is used (not IEEE double)

Solution:

Platforms tested:

Misc. update:
---
 release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt b/release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt
index bd9d4bc..d1ff388 100644
--- a/release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt
+++ b/release_docs/INSTALL_VMS.txt
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 		Building and installation instructions for Alpha Open VMS
 			This file is under construction
-			VMS port is not finished yet.
-				EIP May 5, 2006
+				EIP June 1, 2006
 
    
 
 
 		CONTENTS
 		--------
-
+                
 		1. Obtaining HDF5
 		2. Building C, Fortran and C++ libraries
 		3. Testing HDF5 libraries and tools
@@ -20,11 +19,18 @@
 	  Please see INSTALL file in this directory for downloading instructions.
 
 	2. Building C, Fortran and C++ libraries
-	   Use tar command to untar HDF5 source ball
+
+           IMPORTANT: This version REQUIRES GNU ZLIB librarary to be installed
+                      on a system. You may download the source code from
+                      http://www.zlib.net/
+
+	 -  Use tar command to untar HDF5 source ball
 
 		tar -xvf hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.tar
-	   Change default directory to [.hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.vms]
-           and run 
+
+	 -  Change default directory to [.hdf5-1.8.0-<pre>.vms]
+         -  Modify make.com file to point to the installed ZLIB library.
+         -  Run 
 		@make
            command. This command file will build 
 			C library, tests, and utilities	
@@ -70,9 +76,11 @@
 
 	5. Known problems
 
-	   - There is no support for files bigger than 2GB
-           - There is no support for filters including deflated compression filter and
-	      szip compression filters.
+	   - dsets test fails for test_scleoffset_double and
+	     test_scleoffset_double_2 tests when G_FLOAT double is used
+                                                          06/01/2006 EIP 
+           - There is no support for files bigger than 2GB
+           - There is no support for szip compression filter.
 	   - There are few C and Fortran tests that fail (C mtime,  Fortran file_close and
               multifile driver tests, probably more; all major tests succeed).
 	   - Mulitifile driver has not been tested yet.
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