Linking Octave with HDF5

[John W. Eaton]

On 10-Nov-2005, Lester Wade wrote:

| Sorry to bother you all.  I've had a little dig through the archives and 
| found some suggestions to my problem but they don't seem to work.
| 
| I'm trying to configure octave and link it to hdf5 libraries.  I've 
| installed the libraries into /usr/local/hdf and also onto our network.  
| I've then tried the following;
| 
| ./configure -with-hdf5=/usr/local/hdf/libhdf5.so
| 
| Configures fine but still says it cannot find the libraries.  I've tried 
| all sorts of combinations and am at a bit of a loss.  I've tried setting 
| my environmental variables such as HDF5_LIB to point to /hdf/lib etc.
| 
| I'd be grateful for any suggestions on how to solve this.  Using 
| Octave-2.9.3 source.

Try

  configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/hdf/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/hdf

or whatever is necessary to tell your compiler where to find the
library and header files.

jwe



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