Re: octave with support for hdf5

[John Sanabria]

Previous to execute the configure command, it's necessary to set up the 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/jas/numeric/lib

regards,

John Sanabria wrote:
> Thanks John,
>
> now, the configure script file  found the hdf libraries, however, it 
> fails determining the size of short data type.
>
> checking for short... yes
> checking size of short... configure: error: cannot compute sizeof (short)
> See `config.log' for more details.
>
> any clues,
>
> John W. Eaton wrote:
> > On 22-Oct-2007, John Sanabria wrote:
> >
> > | I'm interested to compile octave with support for hdf5 file format.
> > | I had installed the hdf5 library in the directory ${HOME}/numeric.
> > | | I execute the configure command line as follow:
> > | | ./configure --with-hdf5="hdf5 -L/home/jas/numeric/lib | 
> > -I/home/jas/numeric/include"
> > | | --- snippet output ---
> > | checking for H5Pcreate in -lhdf5 -L/home/jas/numeric/lib | 
> > -I/home/jas/numeric/include... yes
> > | checking hdf5.h usability... no
> > | checking hdf5.h presence... no
> > | checking for hdf5.h... no
> > | --- snippet output ---
> > | | and finally,
> > | | configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be 
> > able to | save or load HDF5 data files.
> > | | :-(, what is the proper parameter for the configure command?
> >
> > The proper way to add -L and -I flags is to use LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
> > You probably only need to use
> >
> >   ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/home/jas/numeric/include 
> > LDFLAGS=-L/home/jas/numeric/lib
> >
> > Given those flags, your compiler should be able to find the HDF5
> > header files and libraries, so configure should then be able to
> > automatically detect the library.
> >
> > jwe
> >
> >