> Is it possible to get access to HDF5 source that has not had autoconf (etc…) > ran, or alternatively, read-only access to version control? > > We would like to hack on some of the IO drivers, but the enormous amount of > intermediate files touched during the autotool process makes it difficult to > keep a clean view of our changes in version control.
Use VPATH (http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/automake/manual/html_node/VPATH-Builds.html). Like most automake-based software, you can build HDF5 into a directory which is not the source directory. wget http://www.hdfgroup.org/ftp/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.8.tar.bz2 tar xjvf hdf5-1.8.8.tar.bz2 mkdir hdf5-build cd hdf5-build ../hdf5-1.8.8/configure # All build artifacts are cleanly in hdf5-build # All source artifacts are cleanly in hdf5-1.8.8 Hope that helps, Rhys _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
