Re: Compilation error in ls-hdf5.cc

[Jaroslav Hajek]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:54 PM, Ivan Sutoris <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have been trying to compile development version of Octave in
> openSUSE 11.1. (after some problems in Cygwin, I decided to try real
> Linux distro :) ) The compilation throws error in file /src/ls-hdf5.cc
> (errors attached as text file), however HDF5 should be installed
> correctly (it is detected with configure script). I got HDF from
> distro's repositories [1], which provide version 1.8.1. That
> (according to HDF website) is quite recent, with some changes when
> compared to 1.6.x releases. Now,  I don't use (and I am not familiar
> with) HDF, so I just configured and compiled octave without it, but I
> guess this could be a problem for others (if the problem is indeed
> incompatibility with new version), so I thought I should bring it to
> attention.
>
> Regards
> Ivan Sutoris
>
> [1] 
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/opensuse/11.1/i586/hdf5-devel-1.8.1-29.7.i586.html
>

This is a known problem. Octave will only work with hdf 1.6, because
no one has so far cared to update the relevant code to the newer
version.


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