Compile load-hdf.cc function

[Krikouille]

Hi there,

I am running Octave version 3.6.4 with Debian (Debian 3.10.11-1 (2013-09-10)
x86_64 GNU/Linux). Now, I am trying to run a Matlab script where HDF
meteorological files are used. I am aware of Octave function ( 'load -hdf5'
<http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/How-to-read-HDF-data-td3298990.html>  )
that should read such files, however, it does not work properly in my case.
I get the following errors (I attached the file 05.02.hdf to this mail: 
05.02.hdf <http://octave.1599824.n4.nabble.com/file/n4660623/05.02.hdf>  ):

octave> load -hdf5 05.02.hdf
HDF5-DIAG: Error detected in HDF5 (1.8.11) thread 140322393601984:
  #000: ../../../src/H5F.c line 1586 in H5Fopen(): unable to open file
    major: File accessibilty
    minor: Unable to open file
  #001: ../../../src/H5F.c line 1377 in H5F_open(): unable to read
superblock
    major: File accessibilty
    minor: Read failed
  #002: ../../../src/H5Fsuper.c line 334 in H5F_super_read(): unable to find
file signature
    major: File accessibilty
    minor: Not an HDF5 file
  #003: ../../../src/H5Fsuper.c line 155 in H5F_locate_signature(): unable
to find a valid file signature
    major: Low-level I/O
    minor: Unable to initialize object
error: load: unable to open input file '05.02.hdf'

Looking for a solution, I came across an Octave 'portage' of the Matlab
hdf_load function  here
<http://lasp.colorado.edu/cism/CISM_DX/code/CISM_DX-0.50/required_packages-linux/tsds/deps/octave-rsw/octave-matlab-compat/octave/hdfread/octave/>
 
. The two functions hdfinfo.m & hdfread.m cannot work unless I compile
load_hdf.cc to get a load_hdf.o file. My attempt to compile load_hdf.cc in
Octave actually fails too:
octave:2> mkoctfile load_hdf.cc

load_hdf.cc:14:28: fatal error: octave/ov-list.h:  No such file or directory
#include <octave/ov-list.h>

I understand that octave/ov-list.h should come with headers but even after I
installed liboctave-dev, I end up with the same error. I cannot find any
ov-list.h file on my system using locate ov-list.h, neither can I find
mention of this files in Octave 3.6 from Debian packages.

Any help on how to sort this problem out? Would be great because I have tons
of hdf files to process...

Thanks

Chris




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