hdf does not found...

[John W. Eaton]

On 12-Nov-2007, John Sanabria wrote:

| Hi,
| 
| I'm trying to compile octave with support for hdf5 format.
| I had installed the hdf5 libraries and headers in /home/jas/numeric/lib 
| and /home/jas/numeric/include, respectively.
| 
| However, when I "configure" the octave source code as follow:
| 
|  ./configure --prefix=/home/jas/numeric 
| CPPFLAGS=-I/home/jas/numeric/include LDFLAGS=-L/home/jas/numeric/lib
| 
| I got this to the end,
| 
|   HDF5 libraries:      
|   LIBS:                 -lreadline  -lncurses -ldl -lm
|   Default pager:        less
|   gnuplot:              gnuplot
| 
| I don't know what is the problem. Any clues?

Did you look in config.log to see what errors were reported when
configure tried to link a simple program with the hdf library?

| The system is: Linux pragma001.grid.sinica.edu.tw 2.4.21-47.EL.cernsmp 
| #1 SMP Mon Jul 24 15:33:59 CEST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
| C compiler is: gcc (GCC) 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-56)

Isn't there an HDF package for your system?  Why are you building it
yourself?

jwe