MX_Pmodule/Tools/HDFView/README.md

Build HDFView module

Notations

Please read this document for commonly used notations and environment variables.

Setup environment

Set

1. GRP='Tools'
2. P=HDFView
3. V to the HDFView version to install
4. PREFIX=$PMODULES_ROOT/$GRP/$P/$V
5. BUILDBLOCK_DIR to the directory of this file.
6. MODULEFILES_DIR=$PMODULES_ROOT/$GRP/modulefiles.
7. RELEASE to the release of the module

Download

Download the package from https://www.hdfgroup.org/downloads/hdfview/. The compressed tar-file contains a shell-script installer.

Install the package

1. Unpack the downloaded tar-file
2. cd "$PMODULES_ROOT/Tools".
3. Run the installer script
4. Accept the license
5. Answer 'no' to the question "Do you want to include the subdirectory HDFView-$V-Linux?"
6. HDFView will be installed into $PREFIX

Post-install

1. mkdir "$PREFIX"/{bin,libexec}
2. mv "$PREFIX/hdfview.sh" "$PREFIX/libexec"
3. install --mode 0755 "$BUILDBLOCK_DIR/HDFView" "$PREFIX/bin"

Install files for Pmodules

1. install --mode 0644 "$BUILDBLOCK_DIR/modulefile" "$MODULEFILES_DIR/$P/$V"
2. echo "$RELEASE" > "$MODULEFILES_DIR/$P/.release-$V"