Bug 289025 – sci-libs/hdf5-1.8.* are not backward compatible with sci-libs/hdf5-1.6.*

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Evgeny Stambulchik 2009-10-14 09:36:02 UTC]

sci-libs/hdf5-1.8.* are not backward compatible with the 1.6 API. Please add a separate slot for these versions. After upgrading to 1.8.3, many dependent packages (e.g., octave with the "hdf5" USE flag) can no longer be recompiled.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) 2009-10-14 11:27:02 UTC]

AFAIK the taken course of action is to apply -DH5_USE_16_API to HDF5-1.8 where needed and wait for the upstream to migrate (see bug #279615 )

However I would be grateful if you could file a bug regarding specific packages failing with HDF5-1.8, like in bug #275382 (octave-3.0.x)
Patches for octave-3.2.x are waiting for upstream approval:
https://www-old.cae.wisc.edu/pipermail/bug-octave/2009-August/009329.html

[Comment 2 Evgeny Stambulchik 2009-10-15 08:08:45 UTC]

Thanks, just filed #289172 against (labplot).

[Comment 3 Markus Dittrich (RETIRED) 2009-10-16 02:52:37 UTC]

Hi Evgeny,

Thanks for your report and we won't be slotting hdf5.
As Kacper suggested, if you notice a broken package
(there shouldn't be too many) please file a bug and
we'll fix it.

Thanks,
Markus

[Comment 4 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) 2009-11-20 23:59:54 UTC]

Closing as per comment #3.