On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Sean Farley wrote: > > > > HDF5 in their infinite wisdom run tests in the same make target as the > > build. One of the Fortran > > tests breaks on the Mac. The only solution that worked for me was to > > disable that test with a > > patch for the source. I mailed them this problem with no response. Feel > > free to fix this in a way > > that satisfies you aesthetically. > > > > I run version 1.8.8 and haven't had anything blow up when making tests.
For one - if we have to manitain patches - we do them in a repo - for eg: at http://petsc.cs.iit.edu/petsc/externalpackages/hdf5-1.8.4/ [and spin our patched tarball] If 1.8.8 works without patches - then we could upgrade to that.. Satish