Hi John,

On 09/22/2015 04:08 PM, John Donners wrote:
> Dear Sir, Madam,
>
> on the page with build prerequisites for HDF5,
>
> http://stellar.cct.lsu.edu/files/hpx-0.9.10/html/hpx/manual/build_system/prerequisites.html
>
> you write that HDF5 on linux needs to be compiled with
>
> export CFLAGS='-DHDatexit=""'
> export CPPFLAGS='-DHDatexit=""'
>
> which is presumably due to issues with parallel HDF5 when exiting the
> application.
> The most recent version of HDF5 (1.8.15-patch1) has some changes that
> seem to
> be related to these issues. At
> http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/doc/ADGuide/Changes.html it says:
>
> *"*
> *For parallel applications*
> A fix for issues encountered upon calling |MPI_Finalize| without having
> closed everything in an HDF5 file
>
>     An attribute destroy callback has been attached to |MPI_COMM_SELF|
>     that shuts down the HDF5 Library when |MPI_COMM_SELF| is destroyed,
>     that is, on |MPI_Finalize|. This should fix several issues that
>     users see when they forget to close HDF5 objects before calling
>     |MPI_Finalize()|.
> "
>
> Do I still need the special CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS for HDF5 1.8.15-patch1?

We are not using HDF5 inside of HPX at all. There were some older 
examples which used them. Due to that, I can't give you a good advice on 
whether you still need those special flags or not. Do you use HDF5 
yourself inside of one of your applications?

>
> With regards,
> John
>
>
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