#358: FAQ entry -----------------------------+---------------------------------------------- Reporter: knarf | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus website | Version: Resolution: | Keywords: -----------------------------+----------------------------------------------
Comment (by knarf):
The HDF5 recombiner uses the new API, and IMHO we should switch everything to it eventually.
It is a bug in the Debian hdf5 package IMHO, and it even got corrected already - but this didn't make it into squeeze in time for the release. So either you install hdf5 from sid or maybe testing, or change the system header. Of course this could influence other things - but the current setup just breaks a lot of software which assumes that 1.8 is used by default when the 1.8 lib is installed. There is an easy mechanism to use 1.6 when 1.8 is installed, that's not a problem.
So, we should probably point out that changing a system header can have its problems, and an alternative would be to install a newer Debian hdf5 package.