Re: Compiling Swarm-2001-02-20. Is hdf5-1.4 optional or mandatory?

[Marcus G. Daniels]

MD> Let me put it this way: I'm not supporting hdf5-1.2.2 unless
MD> someone sends me autoconf macros and preprocessor conditionals to
MD> make it work on the systems it does not. 

I take that back!  I found out the hard way today that hdf5 1.4.0 has
some scary data lossage bugs!  I've added the needed preprocessor
checks to today's snapshot.  (And strongly suggest anyone using HDF5
to handle data revert to 1.2.2.  Note if you aren't using .hdf files,
it won't do any harm to the functioning of Swarm to stick with your
1.4 install.)

   ftp://ftp.swarm.org/pub/swarm/src/testing/swarm-2001-03-30.tar.gz

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