Upstream developers will have a look at it. They presume that it is an error
in the build system.
Dimitris
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Dear Dimitrios,
No. It seems a bug of build system. If HDF5 is present (in any case)
then MathGL should use it. I ask Dmitry Kulagin to check it.
Alexey
2011/9/12 Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos <[email protected]>:
> Hello Alexey,
> we have the following bug, regarding mathgl build in Debian linux:
>
>> mathgl build depends on (amongst others) "libhdf5-serial-dev |
>> libhdf5-dev". However, if either libhdf5-lam-dev or libhdf5-mpi-dev or
>> libhdf5-openpi-dev (all of which sastifies this build-dependency) is
>> installed in the build environment, the package fails to build from
>> source:
>> | checking hdf5.h usability... no
>> | checking hdf5.h presence... no
>> | checking for hdf5.h... no
>> | Please install hdf5 headers
>
> Indeed, mathgl builds in a Debian unstable system, only if libhdf5-serial-dev
> package is installed. It fails to build if either ibhdf5-lam-dev or
> libhdf5-mpi-dev or libhdf5-openpi-dev is installed ( the last three cannot be
> installed simultaneously with libhdf5-serial-dev curently in Debian). All four
> packages provide an hdf5.h file.
>
> My opinion is that mathgl does not work in parallel, thus it cannot build with
> any of the parallel related headers of the hdf5 source package. Hence the bug
> should be closed.
>
> Can I have your comment on this?
>
> Thanks
> Dimitris
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