[Users] HDF5 error: header file can't be opened/seen?

[dumsani]

Hi Frank, Everyone

The problem was solved. Thanks to your suggestion to use the
VERBOSE=yes option. This option revealed that the HDF5
library path was not correctly specified in my .cfg file. There
was an extra /lib bit on the path, instead of giving the path only
up to the top-level library directory. That apparently confused
the compiler, and hence the include directory could not be
found.

Thank you for your assistance.

Kind regards,
Dumsani

On 19/08/2015 18:21, Frank Loeffler wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 05:54:51PM +0200, dumsani wrote:
>> I'am trying to build (compile) a simulation using some private thorns and
>> the Einstein Toolkit (ET_2014_05). The build goes through successfully on
>> my local machine (a laptop running on Gnu/Linux mint 17.1, using GCC
>> compilers).
>>
>> However, when compiling the same code on a remote cluster (running on
>> Gnu/Linux RedHat plus Intel compilers) the compiling persistently fails with
>> the error:
>> cactus/arrangements/EinsteinAnalysis/AHFinderDirect/src/patch/patch_system.cc(87):
>>
>> catastrophic error: cannot open source file "hdf5.h"
>>    #  include <hdf5.h>
> This failure, as you probably guessed, means that the compiler cannot
> find the hdf5 library - not just the C++ part, the library itself.
>
>> Searching on Google, there seems to have been aticket
>> (https://trac.einsteintoolkit.org/ticket/911, or
>> http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2012-July/002333.html) on
>> this
>> issue and it was resolved.
> Since you are using 2014_05 this should be already resolved in your
> checkout.
>
> Compile again, using 'make sim VERBOSE=yes'. This should give you
> the complete compiler command line used for
> cactus/arrangements/EinsteinAnalysis/AHFinderDirect/src/patch/patch_system.cc.
> See if this line includes the hdf5 library (it does not have to
> necessarily). Besides that line, let us know how the HDF5 thorn
> configured HDF5: do you use a system-provided version, a version you
> compiled yourself, or a version Cactus built for you?
>
> We would need at least that information to see what is going on. Also -
> did you try using a newer ET release?
>
> Frank
>