Re: hdf5.h doesn't found

[John W. Eaton]

On 02/25/2015 05:47 PM, José Luis García Pallero wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I'm trying to compile Octave 3.8.2 in Debian Sid. I've done the
> ./configure step as
>
> ./configure --prefix=/opt/octave CFLAGS=-O2 CXXFLAGS=-O2 FFLAGS=-O2
> --with-hdf5-includedir=/usr/include/hdf5/serial/
> --with-hdf5-libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/
>
> I've installed the Debian packages libhdf5-8, libhdf5-cpp-8 and
> libhdf5-dev. In /usr/include/hdf5/serial/ I can see the hdf5.h file
> and in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hdf5/serial/ there are libhdf5.a|so
> et al. I obtain this error at compile time:
>
> g++ -E -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I..  \
>    -I../liboctave/cruft/misc -I../liboctave/array
> -I../liboctave/numeric -I../liboctave/numeric -I../liboctave/operators
> -I../liboctave/operators -I../liboctave/system -I../liboctave/util
> -I./octave-value -I./operators -Iparse-tree -I./parse-tree -Icorefcn
> -I./corefcn -I../libgnu -I../libgnu   \
>     -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith
> -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -O2 -pthread \
>    -DMAKE_BUILTINS octave.cc > octave.df-t
> In file included from ./octave-value/ov.h:42:0,
>                   from corefcn/Cell.h:32,
>                   from octave.cc:52:
> corefcn/oct-hdf5.h:27:18: fatal error: hdf5.h: No existe el fichero o
> el directorio
>   #include <hdf5.h>
>                    ^
> compilation terminated.
> Makefile:8536: recipe for target 'octave.df' failed
>
> The compiler says hdf5.h was not found. Is it a bug or is may
> ./configure step wrong? ./configure didn't emit any warning about. The
> HDF5 related lines were:

I'm pretty sure this is a bug in the Makefiles that has since been fixed.

As a quick workaround, try running configure with

  configure ... CPPFLAGS=-I... LDFLAGS=-L...

instead of using the --with-hdf5-... options.

jwe