Rhys,

This works beautifully, thanks.

-Noah

On Feb 6, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Rhys Ulerich wrote:

>> 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
> 
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