Re: Linking Octave with HDF5

[David Bateman]

Lester Wade wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry to bother you all.  I've had a little dig through the archives 
> and found some suggestions to my problem but they don't seem to work.
>
> I'm trying to configure octave and link it to hdf5 libraries.  I've 
> installed the libraries into /usr/local/hdf and also onto our 
> network.  I've then tried the following;
>
> ./configure -with-hdf5=/usr/local/hdf/libhdf5.so
>
> Configures fine but still says it cannot find the libraries.  I've 
> tried all sorts of combinations and am at a bit of a loss.  I've tried 
> setting my environmental variables such as HDF5_LIB to point to 
> /hdf/lib etc.
>
> I'd be grateful for any suggestions on how to solve this.  Using 
> Octave-2.9.3 source.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lester Wade

looking in config.log should tell you why octave can't find the file. 
Search for hdf5 of course, as this file is rather large...

D.

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