Previously, ph5diff may hang in a test in Linux 32 platform(HDFFV-587).
No solution was available and a patch to bypass the test is implemented.
Since the company is changing domain name soon, the patch would not be valid any more.
Tests were done (repeat 100 mpiexec -np 6 ./ph5diff -v h5diff_hyper1.h5 h5diff_hyper2.h5)
and the previous hanging problem did not occur. It is likely the newer versions of
mpich no longer have this problem. Therefore, it is decide to remove this patch
to make the test script cleaner, if nothing else.
Tested: ran build and test in Jam (linux 32) and the repeat 100 command mentioned above.
All passed.
h5diff issues "unable to read attribute" error message when comparing two files
Description:
h5diff did not handle attributes of variable length strings correctly. It created the wrong memory type if one but not both compared attributes are of the variable strings type. It ended in H5Aread() failure.
Solution:
We decided to treat the case when one type is variable length string and the other is not as incomparable. That bypassed the above error. We still need to figure out the proper way, if possible, to compare variable string with non-variable string types.
Tested: h5committested plus tested in Swallow (OS X 10.8).
