On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Satish Balay <balay at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Sean Farley wrote: > > > > > > > HDF5 in their infinite wisdom run tests in the same make target as the > > > build. One of the Fortran > > > tests breaks on the Mac. The only solution that worked for me was to > > > disable that test with a > > > patch for the source. I mailed them this problem with no response. Feel > > > free to fix this in a way > > > that satisfies you aesthetically. > > > > > > > I run version 1.8.8 and haven't had anything blow up when making tests. > > For one - if we have to manitain patches - we do them in a repo - for eg: > at http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.4/ [and spin > our patched tarball] > I do not see that being in any way superior, and my way allows us to pull directly from the HDF5 site. > If 1.8.8 works without patches - then we could upgrade to that.. If it works, I will not argue. However, if it fails on my machine, I do not want to change. Matt > > Satish > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20120119/8ccd2cbd/attachment.html>
