[petsc-dev] hdf5.py is messed up

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Matthew Knepley wrote:

> > > 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.


looks like 1.8.8 also requires your patch... [for the test build I ran on 10.5 mac.]

satish