[CMake] FindHDF5.cmake improvement proposal

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi Michael,


Il giorno Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:19:32 -0500
Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> ha scritto:

> On 3/2/2010 11:53 AM, Antonio Valentino wrote:
> >> >  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?
> >>      
> > Oh, sorry.
> > I found it on gitorious.org
> >
> > http://gitorious.org/hdf5/hdf5-v18/blobs/master/Resources/CMake/FindSZIP.cmake
> >
> > It seems that someone is going to Cmake-ify HDF5 itself.
> > I suppose the license is the same as HDF5 but I should check.
> >
> >    
> That was me. Couple things. The SZip license is NOT compatible with 
> FreeBSD or similar licenses, just FYI. This would obviously NOT
> preclude CMake from including the FindSZip.cmake (as it was written
> by me) in their distribution. I guess I should put a Copyright or
> acknowledgments or something at the top of FindSZip.cmake on
> gitorious. What does one usually put in those?

OK, thanks for clarification.

> There are a few of us that have pretty much developed a CMake build 
> system for HDF5 version 1.8. Note that this branch is NOT tracking
> the latest official HDF5 svn repo. It was a separate effort. Note
> also that "The HDF Group" who maintains HDF5 _are_ eventually moving
> to a CMake build system in the near future. The "CMake HDF5" that is
> up on gitorious seems stable and does pass all of its tests on
> Windows, Linux, OS X**, a Cray XT and a cluster.

If I understand correctly using the HDF5 build with cmake should also
simplify the life from the client side, isn't it?

There will be a new FindHDF5.cmake?
How will my CMakeLists.txt change?


thanks

-- 
Antonio Valentino