Re: Octave 4.0.0 release candidate 1 available for ftp

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 08:42:35 +0100, José Luis García Pallero wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've tried to install the Octave 4.0 rc1 in my Debian Sid box. I've
> had two problems in ./configure:
> 
> 1. configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be
> able to save or load HDF5 data files.
> 
> I've installed the packages libhdf5-8, libhdf5-8cpp-8 and libhdf5-dev.
> This bug was also present in 3.8.2 but I though that was fixed in the
> development sources. The bug can be avoided using

No, this is expected (for now) on Debian jessie/sid and Ubuntu 15.04.
The Debian HDF5 maintainers decided to require users to declare which
flavor of the HDF5 library they intend to link against.

> CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial/
> --with-hdf5-includedir=/usr/include/hdf5/serial/
> --with-hdf5-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/
> LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/ CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS
> must be used because --with-hdf5-includedir and --with-hdf5-libdir are
> also buggy for some files

However, this should be fixed. I am able to build with --with-hdf5-*
options. Are you remembering that it was buggy in a prior version but
haven't tried again with 4.0.0-rc1?

-- 
mike