Re: hdf5 build error

[Richard Crozier]

On 04/01/16 19:07, John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 01/04/2016 12:58 PM, Richard Crozier wrote:
>
> > So, before pulling your cset, I did make clean and configured with
> >
> > ./configure --with-hdf5-includedir=/usr/include/hdf5/serial
> > --with-hdf5-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial
> >
> > This made the warning go away. Octave also successfully builds. I'm not
> > sure if I made a mistake when I did this before (probably). I have
> > attached the config log from this in spec-dir-config.log.
>
> This is what you are expected to do on a Debian (or Ubuntu) system.
>
> > I then ran make clean again and plain ./configure. I attach the config
> > log from this in plain-config.log
> >
> > here's the contents of /usr/include/hdf5/serial
>
> It's not expected that the compiler will find header files and libraries
> in non-standard locations unless you tell it where to look.
>
> We've previously discussed modifying the configure script to look in the
> directories where Debian installs these files but decided against it.
> You can read the discussion here:
>
>    https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38928
>
> Start with my comment #19.
>
> jwe

ok, thanks for the information, I will add a comment about this to the 
wiki page below if noone objects:

http://wiki.octave.org/Octave_for_Debian_systems

Richard


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