If hdf5 provided a package file we could use that to get the needed info
https://github.com/mokus0/bindings-hdf5/blob/master/doc/hdf5.pc > > Okay, I would like to distinguish between good behavior and HDF5. If we > can ask whether the package enables it, we are fine. If there is a simple > test we can do, we are fine. What can we do for HDF5? > > 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