[Users] HDF5 compile issues w/ or w/o CactusExternal/HDF5

[Luca Baiotti]

By the way,

if you have an up-to-date flesh and Makefile, you should get an error 
message if you set  HDF5 = YES


Luca


On 19/6/11 6:53 AM, Scott Hawley wrote:
> Hi. I'm unable to get HDF5 capability to install.  If I set
> HDF5_DIR=/sw, which is the installation already on my machine, I get
> the error message that I need a thorn that implements HDF5.  ("CST
> error 1:  ->  Thorn 'CarpetIOHDF5' requires the capability 'HDF5'.
> Please add a thorn that provides 'HDF5' to your ThornList or remove
> 'CarpetIOHDF5' from it !")
>
>
> If I leave HDF5_DIR unset (and all other "HDF5" flags unset as well)
> and include CactusExternal/HDF5 in my Thornlist, then I also get an
> error message saying it's unable to compile, as shown below.
>
> To be clear, the options settings which are either left in the file
> or commented out via "#", are:
>
> HDF5            = YES