netcdf-4 alpha 14 and hdf5 1.8.0 alpha3

[Jeff Whitaker]

Ed Hartnett wrote:
> Ilmar Wilbers <ilmar at wilbers.no> writes:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having the exact same problem. It seems to me that the file to be
>> included (H5DS.h) simply isn't part of hdf5-1.8.0-alpha3 as it should
>> be. It is nowhere to be found. On the website of the HDF5 group it is
>> announced to be a part of the official 1.8 release:
>> http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/HDF5/Tutor/h5dimscale.html
>> I can't seem to find it in any earlier alpha versions, either. Anyone
>> had success building netcdf4 who can tell whether the file H5DS.h exists
>> on their system?
>>
>> Sincerly, Ilmar Wilbers
>>     
>
> Howdy all!
>
> Apparently something about this has changed in HDF5 and I have not yet
> had time to address it, being taken up at the moment with the release
> of 3.6.2, which includes many features preparing the way for the even
> more dramatic features in netCDF-4.0.
>
> As I am about to leave for a week's camping in Yellowstone, I'll have
> to ask you to be patient. NetCDF-4.0 will be adjusted to deal with the
> changes in HDF5.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed
>   
Ed:  May I suggest that as a short-term workaround you put the 
hdf5-1.7.52 tarball (the last one that works with netcdf-4.0) on the 
unidata ftp site?  It's no longer available from NCSA.

-Jeff

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