Francesc - Thank you.  This is not mentioned anywhere in the README - is 
that something that could be added?

Also, do I have to make this export a _permanent_ part of my 
installation, or am I just supposed to set this before building the package?

Thanks,

Mike

Francesc Alted wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> A Wednesday 17 September 2008, Michael Hearne escrigué:
>   
>> Hi, new to the list.  I'm trying to get pytables installed on a Red
>> Hat Enterprise system, with a local copy of python 2.5.  Pytables
>> _seems_ to install successfully, giving me the output below.
>>
>> However, when I try to use pytables, I get an error saying
>> "ImportError: libhdf5.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such
>> file or directory".  Why does the installation process show that it
>> knows where the libraries are but the usage fail to find them??
>>     
>
> Because you have directed it how to find the HDF5 libraries in 
> compilation time (via the the --hdf5 flag), but not how to find them in 
> execution time.  There are many ways to do this in Linux, but I 
> normally use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to point to where 
> your libhdf5.so.5 file is.  For example:
>
> $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/hdf5/lib
>
> or similar, should work.  See the man page for 'ld' (the GNU linker) for 
> more info on loading dynamic libraries.
>
> HTH,
>
>   

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