octave with support for hdf5

[John W. Eaton]

On 22-Oct-2007, John Sanabria wrote:

| I'm interested to compile octave with support for hdf5 file format.
| I had installed the hdf5 library in the directory ${HOME}/numeric.
| 
| I execute the configure command line as follow:
| 
| ./configure --with-hdf5="hdf5 -L/home/jas/numeric/lib 
| -I/home/jas/numeric/include"
| 
| --- snippet output ---
| checking for H5Pcreate in -lhdf5 -L/home/jas/numeric/lib 
| -I/home/jas/numeric/include... yes
| checking hdf5.h usability... no
| checking hdf5.h presence... no
| checking for hdf5.h... no
| --- snippet output ---
| 
| and finally,
| 
| configure: WARNING: HDF5 library not found.  Octave will not be able to 
| save or load HDF5 data files.
| 
| :-(, what is the proper parameter for the configure command?

The proper way to add -L and -I flags is to use LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS.
You probably only need to use

  ./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/home/jas/numeric/include 
LDFLAGS=-L/home/jas/numeric/lib

Given those flags, your compiler should be able to find the HDF5
header files and libraries, so configure should then be able to
automatically detect the library.

jwe