[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #807: build h5checker when not available through system installation (was: dependency problem with standard hdf5 tools within HDF5 thorn)

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#807: build h5checker when not available through system installation
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  Reporter:  knarf   |       Owner:  eschnett  
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  reopened  
  Priority:  major   |   Milestone:  ET_2012_05
 Component:  Carpet  |     Version:            
Resolution:          |    Keywords:            
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Changes (by knarf):

  * status:  review => reopened


Comment:

 After applying this patch make sim-utils still complains about h5check
 missing. The reason for that is that h5check isn't built if I use an
 external HDF5 installation.

 We should build h5check when a system hdf5 library is installed but
 h5check is not. We either split this into a separate thorn which would
 make the handling kind of uniform, or would need to add a separate check
 for h5check within the HDF5.sh script to detect whether we need to build
 it, independently from whether the HDF5 library needs to be build or not.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/807#comment:3>
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