[gdal-dev] help compiling hdf5 option on linux

[John Cartwright]

Thanks for your suggest Even, but this still does not work. I've noticed
that the "-with-hdf5"

and " --with-netcdf" options are mutually exclusive. I can get it to build with one or the 
other, but not both.

It seems to work if I rebuild netcdf-4.0.1 w/o the "--enable-netcdf-4" and "--enable-shared", but I don't really understand why 
and am not sure if this will have negative imapacts on the use of the netcdf library outside of gdal.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again for your help.

--john



John,

Re-try but remove the /lib suffix, so something like :

--with-hdf5=/usr/local/contrib/hdf5-1.8.4

The configure script will look for include files in the include subdirectory 
and library files in the lib subdirectory




On 03/17/2010 09:22 PM, John Cartwright wrote:

I'm trying to get 1.7.1 compiled on a 64-bit RHEL 5 server using
hdf5-1.8.4-patch1.  I have hdf5 and netcdf apparently compiled
successfully and have included the following in my configure statement
for gdal:

  --with-hdf5=/usr/local/contrib/hdf5-1.8.4

However, configure complains that:

checking for SDreaddata in -lmfhdfalt... no
checking for SDreaddata in -lmfhdf... no
checking for SDreaddata in -lhdf4... no
checking for SDreaddata in -lmfhdf... no
checking for SDreaddata in -lmfhdf... no
checking for H5Fopen in -lhdf5... no
configure: error: HDF5 support requested with arg
/usr/local/contrib/hdf5-1.8.4, but no hdf5 lib found


I don't understand this since the library seems to be present:

[... at lion gdal-1.7.1]$ ls -l /usr/local/contrib/hdf5-1.8.4/lib
total 6488
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcc eds 6413146 Mar 17 11:44 libhdf5.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcc eds  196564 Mar 17 11:44 libhdf5_hl.a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jcc eds     939 Mar 17 11:44 libhdf5_hl.la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jcc eds     930 Mar 17 11:44 libhdf5.la
-rw-r--r-- 1 jcc eds    2891 Mar 17 11:44 libhdf5.settings