Help : Problems with libhdf5.la

[Krishnan Viswanathan]

Hi

On a Redhat 7.0 (GNU/Linux kernel 2.2.17-14 ) I installed the following rpm 
from Paul Johnson's excellent swarm rpm repository : 
swarm-hdf5-2.1.19.20001128-1.rh7.i686.rpm.  I also have hdf5-1.2.2-1 
installed on my system.

I installed the tutorial files from swarmapps-2.1.1.tar.gz from the Swarm 
website. I was running the very first exercise simpleCBug and on running 
make got this:

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/bin/sh /usr/bin/libtool-swarm --mode link gcc -g -O2 -march=i686  -pipe -mcpu=
pentiumpro -mieee-fp -fexpensive-optimizations -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2
-malign-functions=2 -L/usr/lib/swarm -rpath /usr/lib/swarm  -o bug 
main.o   -lswarm -lobjc

libtool-swarm: link: cannot find the library `/usr/lib/libhdf5.la'
make: *** [bug] Error 
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There is a file libhdf5.a which resides in /usr/lib but no libhdf5.la. So 
in /usr/lib/swarm/libswarm.la I changed libhdf5.la to libhdf5.a. However, 
when I did this, I got the following error:

libtool-swarm: link: `/usr/lib/libhdf5.a' is not a valid libtool archive

After the swarm version (swarm-hdf5-2.1.19.20001128-1.rh7) in my 
machine,  all the rpms have swarm-hdf5-date.RH7.jdk13.i686.rpm, which I 
assume (correctly I hope) is the Java version. I prefer sticking to the 
ObjC version (have been writing my code in this)

The questions I have are:
1. Is upgrading the answer?
2. Should I just build everything from source?
2. Is there any other approach which will be more appropriate?

Thank you very much.

Krishnan


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