Hi,
        Try setting the 'HDF5_DISABLE_VERSION_CHECK' environment variable to 
'1' or '2'.

                Quincey

On Aug 15, 2012, at 5:09 PM, agatometer wrote:

> The government agecy I work with uses HDF5 in many steps of its processes. We 
> have been using hdf5-1.8.5, from your binary distribution site. We're running 
> it on RHEL5.x. The RPM we are using is
> 
> 
> hdf5-1.8.5-1.with.szip.encoder.el5.x86_64.rpm .
> 
> But we're having an issue with h5copy aborting when a file system fills up. 
> Our process has a work-around in place that detects the abort, initiates a 
> cleanup on the file system, and retries the operation when there is more 
> space available, but it doesn't really do what we'd like because it wastes 
> system and database resources to accomplish it.
> 
> One of our analysts had located a fix for the problem in hdf5-1.8.9, and 
> wanted it put on our development servers.
> 
>  
> The Technical Notes at
> 
> 
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/TechNotes/Version.html
> 
> seem to say that 1.8.5 and 1.8.9 should be compatible. But we're finding that 
> we can't have a program compiled and loaded with shared libraries on 1.8.9 
> run on a server with shared libraries and 1.8.5 installed. The reverse is 
> also a problem. In one case, it complains about xxxxx.so.7 or xxxxx.so.7.0.3 
> not being there, and in another, it is 6.0.4 (I think). I've tried various 
> compile options and environment variables, but have yet to come across the 
> magic combination that will cure it.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice on how to proceed? The binary distribution for 
> the 1.8.9 version is:
> 
> 
> hdf5-1.8.9-1.with.szip.encoder.el5.x86_64.rpm.
> 
> Where we are at now is that, until we can fully synchronize base software for 
> our released code with development code, we need to have development on one 
> version and operations on the other. It doesn't really matter all that much 
> which version, either, as long as we can continue to operate without a full 
> application rebuild (all programs) and we can apply emergency patchies 
> piecemeal if necessary. We just don't want to have to manage a full release 
> to get this fix in unless absolutely necessary because it would require a 
> full cycle of testing just for it, and the government usually prefers 
> avoiding that.
> 
> I would appreciate any help that can be provided.
> 
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