[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #100: ExternalLibraries/HDF5/HDF5.sh fails to catch a missing library file in user implementation

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#100: ExternalLibraries/HDF5/HDF5.sh fails to catch a missing library file in
user implementation
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  Reporter:  bmundim  |       Owner:                        
      Type:  defect   |      Status:  reopened              
  Priority:  major    |   Milestone:                        
 Component:  Cactus   |     Version:                        
Resolution:           |    Keywords:  ExternalLibraries HDF5
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Comment (by eschnett):

 Cactus explicitly chooses environment variables over configuration options
 that have been specified in an options file. This was probably done
 because Cactus is built with a "make" command, which allows you to set
 environment variables on the make command line. Allowing the environment
 to override options in a configuration file means that you can do the
 following:

 make sim options=optionsfile VARIABLE=OVERRIDE

 and thus override the setting for VARIABLE that may exist in
 "optionsfile".

 We may want to change this (and I think we should); however, there is
 unfortunately nothing we can do specifically for HDF5_DIR to override
 this.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/100#comment:7>
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