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

[James C. Sutherland]

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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