On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Erik Schnetter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:schnetter@cct.lsu.edu" target="_blank">schnetter@cct.lsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>The option list still assumes that HDF5 has been installed manually into /opt/hdf5/<a href="http://1.8.7." target="_blank">1.8.7.</a> If this option list is supposed to be easy to use, I would remove this, and let Cactus build HDF5.</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>It is intended to be useful as a general Scientific Linux 6 optionlist, but it is currently only used by one machine (tesla). We could create a separate optionlist for that machine and make sl6.cfg more generic as you suggest, but then there would be nobody using sl6.cfg and it could easily go out of date.</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the case of the Mac OS X optionlists, we decided not to do this and to just require that certain packages are installed. How does this differ from that case?</div></div>