From b9c8954ad9954dea8b6dddbd52559a4c70ccdfcc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Quincey Koziol Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 15:06:48 -0500 Subject: [svn-r2989] Purpose: Updating for release. Description: Added descriptions of the configure options that have been added to the library recently. --- INSTALL | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 1230be2..06caa03 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ instance, to enable symbolic debugging of a production version of HDF5 one might say: - $ CFLAGS=-g ./confgure --enable-production + $ CFLAGS=-g ./configure --enable-production 5.3.4. Compiling HDF5 wrapper libraries One can optionally build the Fortran 90 and/or C++ interface to @@ -407,6 +407,25 @@ parallelizm on a distributed multi-processor system. Read the file INSTALL_parallel for detailed explanations. +5.3.11. Threadsafe capability + The HDF5 library can be configured to be thread-safe (on a very + large scale) with the with the '--enable-threadsafe' flag to + configure. Read the file doc/TechNotes/ThreadSafeLibrary.html + for further details. + +5.3.12. Backward compatibility + The 1.4 version of the HDF5 library can be configured to enable + access to functions that were present in the 1.2 version, but removed + from the current version with the '--enable-hdf5v1_2' configure + flag. + +5.3.13. Network stream capability + The HDF5 library can be configured with a network stream file + driver with the '--enable-stream-vfd' configure flag. This option + compiles the "stream" Virtual File Driver into the main library. + See the documentation on the Virtual File Layer for more details + about the use of this driver. + 5.4. Building The library, confidence tests, and programs can be build by -- cgit v0.12