[petsc-dev] hdf5.py is messed up

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Sean Farley wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > HDF5 in their infinite wisdom run tests in the same make target as the
> > > > build. One of the Fortran
> > > > tests breaks on the Mac. The only solution that worked for me was to
> > > > disable that test with a
> > > > patch for the source. I mailed them this problem with no response. Feel
> > > > free to fix this in a way
> > > > that satisfies you aesthetically.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I run version 1.8.8 and haven't had anything blow up when making tests.
> >
> > For one - if we have to manitain patches - we do them in a repo - for eg:
> > at http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.4/ [and spin
> > our patched tarball]
> >
> 
> I do not see that being in any way superior, and my way allows us to pull
> directly from the HDF5 site.

1. patches are easier to maintain and track in hg.

2. From current experience direct link to external sites is not
necessarily superior. [still preferable - but not really
superior]. More points of failure [when compared to a single download
site]. Also there are python problems  with https:// sites with proxy

Perhaps I should switch over these [https] tarballs to ftp.mcs..

Satish

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> > If 1.8.8 works without patches - then we could upgrade to that..
> 
> 
> If it works, I will not argue. However, if it fails on my machine,  I do not
> want to change.
> 
>     Matt
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> > Satish
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