X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <485805D9.1090504@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:43:37 -0500 From: "Yaakov (Cygwin Ports)" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New package: {hdf5,libhdf5_0, libhdf5-deve}-1.6.7-1 References: <4856BC59.9090104@users.sourceforge.net> <754172.45396.qm@web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <754172.45396.qm@web25005.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Marco Atzeri wrote: | I put the hdf5 in a separate directory just to have | a more clean /usr/include structure as | hdf5.h call tens of other HDF5 header. The problem is that dependent packages expect them in /usr/include, and have no way of knowing that they are elsewhere, as hdf5 uses neither pkg-config nor its own -config script. For example, try building octave-fltk: http://cygwin-ports.cvs.sourceforge.net/cygwin-ports/ports/octave/fltk/ You'll get an error because octave/ov.h can't find hdf5.h. | I built the extensions of octave-forge with just | CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include/hdf5" | before calling octave for the pkg install. Yes, but *every* package requiring hdf5 directly or indirectly will need this, which is an unnecessary inconvenience. | If you really need I will modify the package, | but I think that /usr/include/hdf5 | is a more clean solution You'll find it's best to stick with upstream packaging rules and precedent set by other distros. It will make things much easier for yourself and others. Yaakov -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkhYBdkACgkQpiWmPGlmQSOUkACgyP7mPdNxLPtu6bVf/zMdsaTL hPQAn3eoVBapnAtcazdZZceAGSZWKqBh =TGm5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/