From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 10 23:46:12 2011 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 614AF1065673; Tue, 10 May 2011 23:46:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from koziol@hdfgroup.org) Received: from lw2.hdfgroup.org (lw2.hdfgroup.org [67.225.244.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 393358FC0A; Tue, 10 May 2011 23:46:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dhcp-guest-sjc21-128-107-26-187.cisco.com ([128.107.26.187]:51447) by lw2.hdfgroup.org with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from <koziol@hdfgroup.org>) id 1QJvag-0003ZS-PV; Tue, 10 May 2011 18:39:42 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@hdfgroup.org> In-Reply-To: <20110510135616.GA8679@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 17:39:39 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <8047C2F6-C0B9-4DA2-B810-61A4CBB63751@hdfgroup.org> References: <4DC937FE.7090602@missouri.edu> <20110510135616.GA8679@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - lw2.hdfgroup.org X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - hdfgroup.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>, ports@freebsd.org, thierry@freebsd.org, "maho@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 <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>, <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>, <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 23:46:12 -0000 On May 10, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > 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. Moving up to hdf5-18 would be best, if it's possible. Quincey