From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 14:11:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2086A106566B; Tue, 10 May 2011 14:11:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01818FC0A; Tue, 10 May 2011 14:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ncsc.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.41]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QJnQB-00067o-Vl; Tue, 10 May 2011 14:56:20 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by ncsc.bris.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1QJnQB-0006Bj-5B; Tue, 10 May 2011 14:56:19 +0100 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p4ADuIp7008793; Tue, 10 May 2011 14:56:18 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p4ADuH21008791; Tue, 10 May 2011 14:56:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:56:17 +0100 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Message-ID: <20110510135616.GA8679@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <4DC937FE.7090602@missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DC937FE.7090602@missouri.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: ports@freebsd.org, koziol@hdfgroup.org, thierry@freebsd.org, "maho@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: Why so many versions of the port science/hdf? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 14:11:39 -0000 On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:05:02AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Why are there three versions of science/hdf in the ports? > > This is causing problems for me when I try to build the port > octave-forge. As dependencies, it calls in the octave port (which > currently defaults to hdf5), the cgnslib port (which uses hdf5-18), and > the opendx port (which uses hdf). All of these ports function perfectly > well with hdf5.18, because all the different versions of hdf conflict > with each other. > > If we could settle on using hdf5-18 throughout, that would be great. (I > currently maintain opendx, so that would be something I can fix.) > > Are there ports that need hdf but don't build with hdf5-18? science/paraview is currently built with hdf5. Perhaps you should ask its maintainer, devel@stasyan.com, whether hdf5-18 is a good idea. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423