[petsc-dev] hdf5.py is messed up

[Matthew Knepley]

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.


> 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


>
> Satish
>



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