#457: let user enable/disable C++ and Fortran support in ExternalLibraries/HDF5 -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- Reporter: rhaas | Owner: rhaas Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: Component: Cactus | Version: Keywords: | -------------------------+-------------------------------------------------- the attached patch exposes two new configuration variables (which default to yes): HDF5_ENABLE_CXX and HDF5_ENABLE_FORTRAN setting them to no allows users to avoid building/linking against the respective interfaces to hdf5. This is useful when eg. one does not need them and would like to link against a cluster supplied version of hdf5 (or if one cannot use the Fortran modules due to differing compiler versions). This kind of relates to Ian's original email: http://lists.einsteintoolkit.org/pipermail/users/2011-March/000928.html Although it does not provide any early warning.