[Gdal-dev] Bug on gdal hdf format webpage?

[Vincent Schut]

Hi all,

the gdal webpage about the hdf format 
(http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal/frmt_hdf4.html) says you don't need to 
recompile gdal when you change the MAX_FILE setting in hdf's hlimits.h and 
recompile the hdflib. However, my experience is different: the change in the 
max number of open files of the hdf driver in gdal only changes after 
recompiling gdal too. Which probably makes sense because the hdf lib is 
linked statically into gdal, and not dynamically?

Am I the only one experiencing this behaviour, or is it a bug on the webpage?

I'm on an amd64 gentoo linux system, using the hdf library from gentoo 
(4.2.0-r3) and the latest gdal from cvs.

Regards,
Vincent.