#1671: ExternalLibraries/HDF5 ------------------------------------+--------------------------------------- Reporter: bmundim | Owner: Type: defect | Status: review Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: EinsteinToolkit thorn | Version: development version Resolution: | Keywords: ExternalLibraries HDF5 ------------------------------------+---------------------------------------
Comment (by eschnett):
Is there a particular problem you are trying to address?
zlib is widely available, and Cactus can even build it. There is no real need to use szip these days.
I have not encountered a problem when configuring HDF5 with zlib. This would only apply if we build HDF5 ourselves, but try to use an existing, non-standard zlib install. Since zlib is much faster to build than HDF5 this is not an important case in practice.