On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Mike Barker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to install hdf5-1.8.7 on Mac OSX 10.6.8. Following the > instructions in the INSTALL file, I type: > > sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 > sudo make > sudo make check > > from within the hdf5-1.8.7 subdirectory of /usr/local/. > > The make check seems to work okay until it says "Testing iopipe" when > it just hangs indefinitely (well, I waited about 12 hours and nothing > happened). > > I'm a newbie to HDF and to installing these kinds of packages on Macs, > so any help would be much appreciated.
For the record, while building hdf5-1.8.7 on RHEL 6.2 I experienced the hang in iopipe. I was able to get out with <ctrl-C> but running the test again resulted in a hang. The I discovered that our main NFS server was down, and when the server came back the hung iopipe process completed. The NFS directories are used for access to data, and should not be touched by anything in the hdf5 build, so the iopipe test may be accessing directories outside the build tree. I haven't had time to investigate further, but wanted to make it known that this may not be a Mac only issue. -- George N. White III <[email protected]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ Hdf-forum is for HDF software users discussion. [email protected] http://mail.hdfgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/hdf-forum_hdfgroup.org
