Marco, Thanks a lot!
We will definitely take a look. THG folks, You can see Marco's results here /mnt/scr1/epourmal/hdf5-1.8.6-pre3-1-check.log Elena On Feb 5, 2011, at 12:30 PM, marco atzeri wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
