Re: mkoctfile, LINK_DEPS and -lhdf5

[Paul Kienzle]

On Feb 14, 2004, at 7:32 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 14-Feb-2004, Paul Kienzle <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> | Robert Kirchner reported a Mac OS X build failure to
> | me (private mail), which I believe can be traced to
> | mkoctfile not including $LIBS on the LINK_DEPS
> | line.
> |
> | Specifically, the failure is that it is not finding
> | the H5 routines in David Bateman's ov-galois.cc
> | since -lhdf5 is not on the link line.
> |
> | I notice $FLIBS is not there either, but I have no
> | evidence that this is a problem.
> <snip>
> Also, I added FLIBS to the definition of LINK_DEPS in mkoctfile.  Is
> there any case where that could cause a problem?  We already link to
> libcruft, which depends on FLIBS, so I don't see how it could.

What about LIBS?  Any reason not to include it, too?

The other alternative is to use the following for those files
linked against -lhdf5:

        mkoctfile uses_hdf.o -o uses_hdf.oct `mkoctfile -p LIBS`

Paul Kienzle
address@hidden