Re: Debian's libhdf5-8 and Octave 3.8.2

[Mike Miller]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 13:11:20 +0200, José Luis García Pallero wrote:
> Hello,
>
> recently, Debian Sid's libhdf5 library has been updated from libhdf5-7
> (1.8.12 library version) to libhdf5-8 (1.8.13). Internally, in
> libhdf5-8 now doesn't exists the libhdf5.so file, but the included
> file is libhdf5_serial.so. There is apparently another changes
> referred to directory paths for include/. Has anyone problems
> compiling Octave 3.8.2 using Debian's libhdf5-8 library?

Hi, I don't have much trouble compiling any version of Octave, nor do
the Debian autobuilders (we did have to apply some minor patches). Can
you say more about a specific error you are encountering?

If I assume you are having the same error I have seen, telling
configure where hdf5 is with CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS seems to be enough
for me. What have you tried?

It's always best to be specific about what you have already tried and
what errors you have already gotten.

You might be interested in Octave bug #38928 [1], in which some
example problems I ran across are shown. I don't remember if I posted
my workaround that is working for me until I/we have time to work on a
better solution.

[1] http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38928

-- 
mike