[CIG-SHORT] Problem when building Pylith from source.

[Brad Aagaard]

I have patched the HDF5 tarball on the CIG webserver and posted a new 
PyLith installer release (2.1.0-2) that uses this tarball.

Regards,
Brad


On 07/10/2015 12:38 PM, Brad Aagaard wrote:
> Laura,
>
> This error is a compilation error associated with a bad comment line
> within HDF5. Some compilers are more lenient than others when they
> encounter C++ style comments in C code.
>
> ../../../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");
>
>
>
> Change line 635 of hdf5-1.8.11/tools/lib/h5tools_dump.c from
>
> //HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate
> buffer for ptdata");
>
> to
>
> /* HGOTO_ERROR(dimension_break, H5E_tools_min_id_g, "Could not allocate
> buffer for ptdata"); */
>
>
>
> I will create a patched version of the HDF5 tarball on the CIG website
> to fix this.
>
> Thanks for reporting this.
>
> Brad
>
>
> On 07/10/2015 12:11 PM, Laura Blanco Martin wrote:
>> Matt,
>>
>> Sorry for that. I attach the three files again.
>>
>> Laura
>>
>> Laura Blanco Martin
>> Earth Sciences Division
>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>> 1 Cyclotron Rd, MS74R 316C
>> Berkeley, CA 94720
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Laura Blanco Martin
>> <lblancomartin at lbl.gov
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Brad, Matt,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick replies! I attach the 2 files config.log, plus
>>> log.txt containing all the output from make. Let me know if you need any
>>> other file.
>>>
>>> Thanks so much,
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>> Laura Blanco Martin
>>> Earth Sciences Division
>>> Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
>>> 1 Cyclotron Rd, MS74R 316C
>>> Berkeley, CA 94720
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Laura Blanco Martin <
>>> lblancomartin at lbl.gov> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I am trying to build Pylith from source in Ubuntu 15.04 and I get an
>>>> error when building HDF5:
>>>>
>>>> make[6]: *** [h5tools_dump.lo] Error 1
>>>> make[6]: Leaving directory
>>>> `/home/laura/build/pylith/hdf5-build/tools/lib'
>>>> make[5]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>> make[5]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith/hdf5-build/tools'
>>>> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
>>>> make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith/hdf5-build'
>>>> make[3]: *** [hdf5] Error 2
>>>> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith'
>>>> make[2]: *** [installed_hdf5] Error 2
>>>> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith'
>>>> make[1]: *** [installed_netcdf] Error 2
>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/laura/build/pylith'
>>>> make: *** [installed_pylith] Error 2
>>>>
>>>> I have tried to build other versions of the package available in
>>>> http://geoweb.cse.ucdavis.edu/~buildbot/deps/
>>>>
>>>> but I always get the same error. Following suggestions in the install
>>>> file, I have also tried to change the features/packages selected
>>>> when doing
>>>> configure, but the error is always the same.
>>>> I have built Pylith from source before, on a Virtual Machine. Now I am
>>>> using a Liinux PC. Could the problem be related to incompatibilities
>>>> between make and autoreconf, etc ? At the beginning I was using make
>>>> v4,
>>>> and it seems that it has some backwards incompatibilities. I have
>>>> installed
>>>> v3.81, but I get the same error. When using make v4, before line
>>>> "make[6]:
>>>> *** [h5tools_dump.lo] Error 1" above, I used to get a line
>>>> "Makefile.553 :
>>>> recipe for target 'h5tools_dump.lo' failed".
>>>>
>>>> Any help will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Laura
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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