Re: Octave 4.0.0 release candidate 1 available for ftp

[José Luis García Pallero]

2015-03-10 14:49 GMT+01:00 Mike Miller <address@hidden>:
> 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?

Sorry, my previous comment was wrong. For Octave 4.0 the
CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/include/hdf5/serial/ and
LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/ options in configure
are not needed

>
> --
> mike



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