Hi All,
Just curious if anyone out there runs into the issue of supporting *both*
serial and parallel HDF5 clients from a *single* HDF5 installation.
A challenge I have is supporting this across Windows, OS X and Linux.
With a *single* HDF5 installation, the libhdf5.{so,dll,dylib…} has link-time
dependence on MPI even for serial clients. But, properly coded
serial clients *should* have no run-time dependence on MPI.
Does anyone run into any gotchas doing this.
Would it make sense to ask The HDF Group to re-package the parallel
installation slightly providing a libhdf5.{so,dll,dylib} that has NO
MPI references in it and a second, smaller, libhdf5_mpi.{so,dll,dylib} that
that has the mpi-parallel parts? A parallel caller would have to
link to libhdf5_mpi and libhdf5 but a single installation could more easily
support both serial and parallel clients.
Just curious if others have thoughts on this.
Mark
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