On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Mike McGreevy wrote: > Hi everyone, > > A new pre-release candidate of our HDF5 1.8.6 release is available for > testing (hdf5-1.8.6-pre3), and can be downloaded at the following link: > > http://www.hdfgroup.uiuc.edu/ftp/pub/outgoing/hdf5/ > > We have addressed some additional issues exposed during the previous round > of release candidate testing, including fixing an important bug in the > scale-offset compression filter. The bug caused big-endian machines to > generate corrupt data when using the scale-offset filter on floating point > datasets or on datasets with fill values. Such datasets will no longer be > readable by this and future versions of the HDF5 library. The current > workaround for such files is to remove the filter by using the h5repack > utility in version 1.8.5-patch1 or earlier, and then to repack the file with > the h5repack utility in version 1.8.6. Please let us know if you have a lot > of archived data that used the scale-offset filter and the "h5repack" > workaround is not a practical solution. > > If you have some time to test this tar-ball, it would be greatly > appreciated. If there are no critical errors reported, we hope to release > around mid-February. > > Thank you, all! > > The HDF Team >
On cygwin the test are almost all passed. If you are interested for all the details I uploaded a copy of "make -i check" output on http://matzeri.altervista.org/works/hdf5/ I built also the cygwin packages and uploaded them on my websites hdf5-1.8.6_pre3-1.tar.bz2 utility, documentation and examples libhdf5-devel-1.8.6_pre3-1.tar.bz2 header and develeopment stuff libhdf5_6-1.8.6_pre3-1.tar.bz2 dll's To install them using the cygwin setup you should run setup.exe -X -O -s http://matzeri.altervista.org (-X skip the signature check and -O look only on that website instead of the standard www.cygwin.com) Regards Marco _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
