On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Matthew Knepley wrote: > > > 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.
looks like 1.8.8 also requires your patch... [for the test build I ran on 10.5 mac.] satish
