[petsc-users] Configure/make with "--download-hdf5" or "--with-hdf5-dir=" crashes

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Satish Balay wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Sep 2014, Jed Brown wrote:
> 
> > Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2014, Åsmund Ervik wrote:
> > >
> > >> This is the reason why I asked whether I can somehow tell
> > >> "--download-hdf5" to download a more recent version. 1.8.11 should do it.
> > >
> > >
> > > This works for me with examples..
> > >
> > > --download-hdf5=http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/prev-releases/hdf5-1.8.13/src/hdf5-1.8.13.tar.gz
> > 
> > Sounds good, will you upgrade hdf5.py?
> 
> pushed and merged to next
> 
> https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/72dba1de4d91de2998c7fb909813c856df9b7209

http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/nightlylogs/archive/2014/09/09/configure_next_arch-c-exodus-dbg-builder_bb-proxy.log

> ../liblib/.libs/libnetcdf.so: undefined reference to `H5Pset_fapl_mpiposix'

Ok there is an issue with hdf5-1.8.13 with current netcdf. Looks like its fixed in netcdf.git

http://hdf-forum.184993.n3.nabble.com/Re-undefined-reference-to-H5Pset-fapl-mpiposix-td4027216.html

Revert or use netcdf.git? [there can be a cascading effect of dependencies?]

Satish