Re: hdf5 build error

[John W. Eaton]

On 01/03/2016 07:52 PM, Richard Crozier wrote:
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> I'm not sure if it's more appropriate for the help or maintainers, but
> I'm trying to build from a fresh clone of the development sources in a
> Ubuntu 15.10 VM. I have installed libhdf5-serial-dev. However, configure
> is still not picking it up (I still get the warning about not finding
> hdf5 libs), and I get the following error when building:
>
> libinterp/corefcn/coct-hdf5-types.c:37:43: error: 'H5E_DEFAULT'
> undeclared here (not in a function)const octave_hdf5_id
> octave_H5E_DEFAULT =
> H5E_DEFAULT;^libinterp/corefcn/coct-hdf5-types.c:38:43: error:
> 'H5P_DEFAULT' undeclared here (not in a function)const octave_hdf5_id
> octave_H5P_DEFAULT =
> H5P_DEFAULT;^libinterp/corefcn/coct-hdf5-types.c:39:39: error: 'H5S_ALL'
> undeclared here (not in a function)const octave_hdf5_id octave_H5S_ALL =
> H5S_ALL;^Makefile:15761: recipe for target
> 'libinterp/corefcn/libinterp_corefcn_libcorefcn_la-coct-hdf5-types.lo'
> failedmake[2]: ***
> [libinterp/corefcn/libinterp_corefcn_libcorefcn_la-coct-hdf5-types.lo]
> Error 1make[2]: Leaving directory
> '/home/crobarcrozier/src/octave-hg'Makefile:25790: recipe for target
> 'all-recursive' failedmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1make[1]:
> Leaving directory '/home/crobarcrozier/src/octave-hg'Makefile:9887:
> recipe for target 'all' failedmake: *** [all] Error 2
>
> Do I have the right hdf5 lib installed?

I checked in the following changeset:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/13b9cac748f2

That should allow Octave to compile again when HDF5 is missing.

> I tried configuring with
>
> ./configure --with-hdf5-includedir=/usr/include/hdf5/serial/
> --with-hdf5-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/
>
> I still get the warning about the hdf5 libs not being found, I didn't
> actually try building after this. I also get both the warning and the
> error if I configure with --without-hdf5.

I have no problem compiling on Debian systems with the following 
configure options:

  --with-hdf5-includedir=/usr/include/hdf5/serial
  --with-hdf5-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial

What files are in those directories on your system?  What does 
config.log tell you about HDF5 detection?

jwe