[petsc-dev] hdf5.py is messed up

[Satish Balay]

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]

If 1.8.8 works without patches - then we could upgrade to that..

Satish