[MOAB-dev] Problems with MOAB not finding hdf5

[Tim Tautges]

Jason, is there any way of checking for that library before checking for 
hdf5?  Or, do we not want to do that because we might have a 
locally-built hdf5 w/o szip?

- tim

Jason Kraftcheck wrote:
> Tim Tautges wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>   I wasn't aware that the build was breaking with pre-compiled versions
>> of hdf5 on 64 bit.  I'm passing that along to Jason to test.
>>
>> - tim
>>
>> John H Magerlein wrote:
>>> Tim,
>>> I was able to get this to work today, but it took a lot of effort.
>>> When I compile this on my 64-bit system, I obviously need the 64-bit
>>> HDF5 libraries. I loaded the latest pre-compiled HDF5 64-bit
>>> libraries, but your configure code to detect working HDF libraries
>>> seems to fail for this latest release of HDF. Eventually I got some
>>> older HDF5 code (release 1.6.4), but I had to compile this from
>>> sources to get a 64-bit version. This was a lot of trouble and I'm not
>>> sure it is completely right. In any case, using this older HDF5 code
>>> with MOAB/iMesh does seem to all work now.
>>>
>>> In summary, can you modify your code so it is compatible with the
>>> current release of HDF5?
>>>
> 
> I cannot say with certainly what problem was encountered without more
> information (architecture and operating system, resulting config.log file,
> etc.)  My best guess is that you probably do not have the szip library
> installed.  If this is the case, then our configure script is correct in
> reporting that the HDF5 library does not work (I assume that was the error.)
>   To fix this, you need to download and install the szip library, and if it
> is installed in a non-standard place, use --with-szip or LDFLAGS=
> appropriately when configuring MOAB.  Alternately, you could just build the
> HDF5 library from source w/out support for SZIP compression (MOAB doesn't
> use it anyway.)
> 
> - jason
> 

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