[CMake] FindHDF5.cmake improvement proposal

[Michael Jackson]

On 3/2/2010 12:37 PM, Mark Moll wrote:
> On Mar 2, 2010, at 10:53 AM, Antonio Valentino wrote:
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>>> 2. For your SZip portion to work, there would need to be a
>>> FindSZip.cmake in system modules directory. Do you have one that you
>>> can contribute?
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>> Oh, sorry.
>> I found it on gitorious.org
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>> http://gitorious.org/hdf5/hdf5-v18/blobs/master/Resources/CMake/FindSZIP.cmake
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> It would be nice if the FindSZIP module could detect whether the SZip library contains the encoder. The encoding part has a different license [1] than the decoding part, so some package managers (like MacPorts) do not install the encoder by default. I have no idea how to do this.
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> [1] See http://www.hdfgroup.org/doc_resource/SZIP/.
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I don't see why it couldn't if the proper defines are put into the 
header files, or better yet, a normal SZipConfig.cmake file that could 
simply be read would be great. Don't have the time currently myself but 
it would be a nice addition.

Mike J.