FYI, with the fix done in http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2297, I've successfully built GDAL trunk with a HDF5 1.8.1 library (built from the source without any particular config option).
And I can also build it with libhdf4g-4.1r4-21 from the Ubuntu repository If you have specific problems, it may be interesting to (re)open tickets with precise informations on your configure options and libraries versions. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev