[CIG-SHORT] hdf5 issue while compiling

[Matthew Knepley]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Romain Jolivet <rjolivet at caltech.edu> wrote:

> Dear Brad et al.,
>
> I compiled pylith using the installer on an iMac (brand new), running Mac
> os X 10.9 (not Yosemite, Mavericks).
> As things were not going that smoothly, I decided to enable every options
> available with the installer, but not gcc (I have gcc4.9 from macports).
>
> When compiling hdf5, it stops, saying:
>
> ../../../hdf5-1.8.11/tools/lib/h5tools_dump.c:635:9: error: expected
> expression before '/' token
>          //HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not
> allocate buffer for ptdata”);
>

It looks like they used a C99 comment, but your compiler does not like it.
Delete the line and try again is the
easiest option.

  Thanks,

     Matt


> The compiler used is mpicc (given what the Makefile says) that has been
> compiled using the pylith installer.
>
> Any idea?
> Cheers,
> Romain
>
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