[Swarm-Support] NCSI/hdf5 warning prompts quasi new release snapshot for swarm users

[Paul E. Johnson]

HDF5 folk announced this:

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File Corruption Bug in HDF5-1.4.5
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A critical file corruption bug was found in HDF5-1.4.5, which
can cause metadata to not be written to a file.  If you are
using HDF5-1.4.5, please upgrade to HDF5-1.4.5-post2 as soon
as possible.

We will NOT be providing pre-compiled binaries for HDF5-1.4.5-post2.
We are also not removing the pre-compiled binaries for HDF5-1.4.5,
so be aware that this problem exists in these binaries.  

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Seems strange to me.  I gather from this that they think it is a minor problem 
and so they are acknowledging and patching but not re-releasing. Why? I dunno.

But, in case you already downloaded my RPM for RedHat 9.0 along with a swarm snapshot, my 
conscience requires me to give you a binary update

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RH9.0/hdf5-1.4.5post2-1RH90.i386.rpm

The swarm stuff is in the same directory. I have an updated edition of jikes:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RH9.0/jikes-1.18-1.i386.rpm
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RH9.0/blt-2.4u-7.i386.rpm
http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RH9.0/swarm-2.1.141.20021019-1RH9.0.i386.rpm

There is no documentation yet, same directions as for RH8 work:

http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH8.0/

In case you are still on hdf5-1.4.4, this should not matter. I would point out, 
however,
that hdf5-1.4.5 comes with a significant amount of documentation that I don't recall seeing 
before in their releases. It may have been there before...

Warning: Note that this new snapshot of swarm does not interact perfectly with the edition of tcltk that 
Redhat has introduced  (8.3.5).  Every time you run a swarm program, it has trouble finding the 
"special" bitmap that Swarm creates and it is the "close tcl window" button in the GUI 
(you know, the red asterix-ish sort of thing?).  This  bitmap called "special" is exported into the 
tcl environment, but this edition on RedHat does not find it.  So now the close window thing does not show 
the red asterix anymore. And in the xterminal where you run the Swarm program, you see some crud:

$ ./heatbugs
(Tcl -eval:) bitmap "special" not defined
   (processing "-bitmap" option)
   invoked from within
".w135637336.w135644464.w135648456.w135656120.w135657568.w135665600 configure 
-bitmap special -activeforeground red -foreground red"
while evaluating: 
.w135637336.w135644464.w135648456.w135656120.w135657568.w135665600 configure 
-bitmap special -activeforeground red -foreground red


I have been trying to get to the bottom of this, but did not get there yet.


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