See <https://github.com/JuliaLang/HDF5.jl/pull/291>.
-erik
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Erik Schnetter <schnet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks! The GSL code should really be an example for BinDeps.
>
> For the record, these two lines install GSL from source:
> ```Julia
> # build from source
> provides(Sources, URI("http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gsl/gsl-1.16.tar.gz";), libgsl)
> provides(BuildProcess, Autotools(libtarget = "libgsl.la"), libgsl)
> ```
>
> -erik
>
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimi...@club.fr>
> wrote:
>> Le lundi 28 mars 2016 à 08:41 -0400, Erik Schnetter a écrit :
>>> The HDF5 package does not know how to install HDF5 on Linux; it
>>> requires HDF5 to be installed on the system. (This is different e.g.
>>> on Darwin, where it can install its own HDF5 library.) The solution is
>>> to update the HDF5 package to use BinDeps to install HDF5 from source.
>>>
>>> Installing HDF5 is just the usual "configure --prefix=somewhere; make;
>>> make install", so that should be straightforward. Unfortunately I'm
>>> not too familiar with BinDeps, and the documentation doesn't have an
>>> example for installing a package from a tarball. I'd be happy to
>>> create a PR if someone points me to an example, maybe in another
>>> package.
>> Building from source is good for a cluster when you don't have root
>> access. However, for many Linux users a package provider will be even
>> better (and it's easier to set up with BinDeps).
>>
>> The BinDeps documentation is a bit hard to read, but it mentions the
>> Cairo.jl example, which is reasonably complete:
>> https://github.com/JuliaLang/Cairo.jl/blob/master/deps/build.jl
>>
>> A simpler example is GSL.jl:
>> https://github.com/jiahao/GSL.jl/blob/master/deps/build.jl
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>> -erik
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 10:42 PM, jda <jdambro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I am getting this error:
>>> >
>>> > LoadError: None of the selected providers can install dependency
>>> > libhdf5.
>>> >
>>> > on a linux cluster node. Can anyone suggest a fix?
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
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