[gdal-dev] compiling hdf5 support into gdal-1.6.2

[John Cartwright]

Hello All,

I'm trying to compile in hdf5 support by specifying
"--with-hdf5=/usr/local/contrib" to the configure script.  The hdf 5
libraries are located in /usr/local/contrib/lib.  However, configure
tells me:

configure: error: HDF5 support requested with arg /usr/local/contrib,
but no hdf5 lib found

I've tried both "--with-hdf5=/usr/local/contrib" and
"--with-hdf5=/usr/local/contrib/lib" w/o success. /usr/local/contrib
contains:
libhdf5.a
libhdf5_hl.a
libhdf5_hl.la
libhdf5_hl.so
libhdf5_hl.so.6
libhdf5_hl.so.6.0.2
libhdf5.la
libhdf5.settings
libhdf5.so
libhdf5.so.6
libhdf5.so.6.0.2

Can someone help me w/ the proper syntax for this option?

Thanks!

--john