Building H5Part

• Configure Options
• Important Environment Variables

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Configure options

To set the installation path configure with

	./configure --prefix=your hdf5 installation full path, e.g.--prefix=/usr/local/hdf5 

For the serial implementation configure with

	./configure

For the parallel implementation configure with

	./configure --enable-parallel

To enable shared objects configure with

	./configure --enable-shared 

Environment Variables

To add HDF5 to your PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH edit your .tcshr, or .cshrc depending on the shell you are using and add

setenv HDF5 "your hdf5 installation full path"
setenv PATH ${PATH}:${HDF5}/bin
setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${HDF5}/lib

if you are using bash, add to your .bashrc

export HDF5="your hdf5 installation full path"
export  PATH=$PATH:${HDF5}/bin
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${HDF5}/lib

Open a new terminal or do a source .tcshr (.cshrc, .bashrc) in the one that you are using. You can continue downloading and installing H5Part.