[CMake] FindHDF5.cmake and the "hl" versions of hdf5 libs

[Michael Jackson]

So there is probably a bug in the FindHDF5.cmake file plain and  
simple. Can you file a bug report with CMake?

What version of HDF5 are you using? What version of CMake are you  
using? What platform are you running on
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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio

On Sep 1, 2010, at 9:17 AM, James C. Sutherland wrote:

> I was aware of the CMake build for the newer HDF5 releases.
>
> However, I need this to work for users who are not able/willing to  
> build their own hdf5 libraries from source.
> Also, it is certainly not a very good option to ask a user to move  
> to a CMake build system and then tell them to hack on a  
> FindHDF5.cmake file just to get a proper link line.  Autotools users  
> scoff at that and tell me that "CMake is too opaque to be usable."
>
> There should be a way of getting this to work...?
>
> James
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Biddiscombe, John A.  
> <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
> The latest 1.8.5.x release branch of svn is CMake friendly and you  
> shouldn’t have this trouble is you’re willing to recompile/install it
>
>
> Something along these lines will work for an installation on win32  
> into /program file/HDF5
>
>
>   FIND_PACKAGE(HDF5 "1.8.5" REQUIRED NO_MODULE PATHS  
> "$ENV{ProgramFiles}/HDF5")
>
>
> [To fix the problem on the systems without re-installing, just  
> remove references to hdf5_hl from the FindHDF5 stuff in your cmake  
> installation module]
>
>
> JB
>
>
> From: cmake-bounces at cmake.org [mailto:cmake-bounces at cmake.org] On  
> Behalf Of James C. Sutherland
> Sent: 01 September 2010 00:45
> To: cmake
> Subject: [CMake] FindHDF5.cmake and the "hl" versions of hdf5 libs
>
>
> I typically have full HDF5 installations on my systems but am now  
> going to a system where the "hl" versions of the hdf5 libraries are  
> not installed.
>
> Although I don't need these, it appears that CMake is unwilling to  
> let me proceed without them.  I get the following error:
>
> CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but  
> they are set to NOTFOUND.
> Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in  
> the CMake files:
> HDF5_hdf5_hl_LIBRARY_DEBUG (ADVANCED)
>     linked by target "tabprops" in directory /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/ 
> common/home/u0033394/TabProps/tabprops
> HDF5_hdf5_hl_LIBRARY_RELEASE (ADVANCED)
>     linked by target "tabprops" in directory /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/ 
> common/home/u0033394/TabProps/tabprops
>
>
> By the way, the installed libraries are found:
>
> -- Found HDF5: debug;HDF5_hdf5_hl_LIBRARY_DEBUG-NOTFOUND;/uufs/ 
> chpc.utah.edu/sys/pkg/hdf5/5-1.6.3-amdopteron/lib/libhdf5.a;/uufs/ 
> chpc.utah.edu/sys/pkg/hdf5/5-1.6.3-amdopteron/lib/ 
> libhdf5_cpp.a;optimized;HDF5_hdf5_hl_LIBRARY_RELEASE-NOTFOUND;/uufs/ 
> chpc.utah.edu/sys/pkg/hdf5/5-1.6.3-amdopteron/lib/libhdf5.a;/uufs/ 
> chpc.utah.edu/sys/pkg/hdf5/5-1.6.3-amdopteron/lib/libhdf5_cpp.a
>
>
> My CMakeLists.txt file has the following:
>
> set( HDF5_USE_STATIC_LIBRARIES 1 )
> find_package( HDF5 COMPONENTS C CXX )
>
>
> Any idea of how to get fix this problem?
>
> James
>
>
>
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