H5.format.html
Merged R1.2 and R1.4 (development tree) versions.
Fixed centered paragraphs and moved first two figures to right
margin.
FF-IH_FileGroup.gif and FF-IH_FileObject.gif
New 'File-Group' and 'File-Object' images for Format Spec.
Changed 'Boot Block' to 'Super Block'. (FF-IH_FileGroup.gif only)
Bug fix.
Description:
Failed on T3E in which int32 is typedef to a short (4 bytes)
but the converter just used H5T_NATIVE_INT for conversion of
a STD_INT32. Int in a T3E is actually 64bit big.
Solution:
Recoded the h5type to h4type matching algorithm by making sure
the size of the H4 type used is equal to the size of the
H5 native type.
Remark: current implementation is not efficient--it does all
the sizes checking repeatedly. Should have done the type mapping
once at the beginning as initialization.
Old code are still retain via the macro NEWWAY. Need to verify
the correctness of the converter in more platforms before
finalized on the code.
Platforms tested:
Baldric (Solaris 2.6), arabica (Solaris 2.7)
T3E
Makefile.in:
acconfig.h:
src/H5F.c:
src/H5FDdpss.c:
src/H5FDdpss.h:
src/H5config.h.in:
test/dpss_read.c:
test/dpss_write.c:
Changed the name DPSS to GRIDSTORAGE since that is the real name
of the API from ANL. DPSS is just one of the protocols it can use.
Changed a bug in the --with-ssl option.
Makefile.in:
Removed the copying of Makefile.dist since it caused problems
when doing a make distclean in a --srcdir configured directory.
srcdirname <dir>:
Use <dir> as the srcdir testing directory if srcdir is choosen.
If <dir> starts with '-', it is append to the default name
E.g., "snapshot srcdir srcdirname -xx" uses hostname-xx
[Default is hostname]
op-configure <option>:
Pass <option> to the configure command
Feature "improvement".
Problem:
The Makefile target triggers gmake to redo the whole auto-configure
process if it sees any autoconfigure related files changed. It causes
couple problems. One is that when multiple machines using --srcdir
are running make, they may detect the changes and launch the autoconf
at the same time. These end up as multiple hosts updating the same
srcdir area together--bad things can happen. Another one is that
when one modifies some Makefile.in, then try "make distclean" before
launching the configure process. Instead of cleaning things, it
started a configure, recreate all Makefiles and other files, then
finally come around to do the distclean--who knows what it cleans
by now since the Makefile is changed too. Last problem was that
this auto-process will launch even for command "gmake -n ...".
Solution:
Renamed Makefile target to reconfigure so that the auto-checking
is still available but must be launched explicitedly. If one
wishes to have the auto-checking as default, one may do
alias gmake "\gmake -i reconfigure; gmake \!* ".
Configuration improvement
Problem:
Arabica has a zlib library that is a dynamic lib in /usr/ncsa/lib.
Binary generated would fail to run with a missig libz.so complain
if /usr/ncsa/lib is not in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This exposed the
problem that if the binary is linked with -L$mylibpath -lxyz
where libxyz is a dynamic type, the binary can't run if $mylibpath
is not in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equivalent) or as part of the
system default library paths (e.g., /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib).
This problem also caused failures during configure (when trying
to see what format to print long long) and during H5detect.
The base cause is because libtool does not "transfer" the
knowledge of -L$mylibpath to the wrapper file its mode=link
generates.
Solution:
bin/ltmain.sh:
Changed it so that it transfers the libpaths from -Llibpaths
to the wrapper generated. I used the already defined variable
finalize_shlibpath. Not sure it is correct to use it this way.
Need to check on this.
configure.in:
Put in a patch to transfer information from LDFLAGS to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
right before the AC_TRY_RUN. The above fix for ltmain.sh does not
work here because libtool is generated later than this point.
There should be a cleaner way to do this.
Removed the hardcode of NCSA_LT_LINK_EXE because it is no longer
needed.
commence.in:
Removed the hardcode of NCSA_LT_LINK_EXE because it is no longer
needed.
Makefile.in:
Another patch of LDFLAGS to LD_LIBRARY_PATH because I could not
make it to generate H5detect in the wrapper form of libtool.
Need to make it to use the libtool correctly. Later.
Platform tested:
arabica (solaris 2.7)
baldric (solaris 2.6)
now the dump structure contains 2 extra members that tell how to format the
data for the dataset regions(blocks and pts).
had to give h5ls values for these
in h5dump.c just initialized the values for the formatting struct.
in h5tools.c made some changes in the printing area to get the dump output to
look closer to what we wanted. the strings are currently not printing correctly.
also removed the program type variable from here.
The Dependencies files were generated in $srcdir even when
--srcdir is used. It caused conflicts if multiple hosts
are doing make sharing the same $srcdir. It also violated
the rule that --srcdir would not modify the content of $srcdir
which could be on a read-only media like a CD-ROM.
Solution:
Dependencies files are generated in the "current" directory.
Platform tested:
dangermouse (linux), modi4 (IRIX64).
