Hi Mathias,
On May 27, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Mathias Wilhelm wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just ran into the problem, that my c++ HDF5 application has to be thread
> safe. I stumbled across a post 2 years ago[0], which desribes that
> --enable-threadsafe _and_ --enable-cxx does not work together.
> I guess this is still up to date, since the configuration aborts with the
> configuration error "incompatible flags".
>
> Can somebody briefly explain, where and why the c++ wrapper for the c API of
> HDF5 is not thread safe?
> I am thinking of implementing my own mutex, but this does not seem to be
> correct. Also, I do not know which part of the c++ is not thread safe.
>
> Any suggestions?
We don't test that configuration (because we don't have any demand from
organizations that fund our company), so it might work without any problem, but
we're not sure. If you'd like to give it a try, you can use the
"--enable-unsupported" configure flag and see if things are working for you.
Quincey
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