Re: hdf does not found...

[John Sanabria]

John,

The configuration file look for zlib and if it's found, then look for 
hdf library. I installed the zlib and the hdf was recognized ;-)

I solved the problem, thanks John :-)

John W. Eaton wrote:
> 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
>
>