hdf5-tools contains h5cc/h5c++ compiler wrappers better placed in libhdf5-*-dev

[Rhys Ulerich]

Binary package hint: hdf5-tools

The hdf5-tools package contains several compiler wrapper-related files which should instead be distributed with libhdf5-*-dev. Namely,
   /usr/bin/h5c++
   /usr/bin/h5cc
   /usr/bin/h5fc
   /usr/share/man/man1/h5c++.1.gz
   /usr/share/man/man1/h5cc.1.gz
 (pulled from http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/i386/hdf5-tools/filelist).

The h5cc, h5c++, and h5fc compiler wrappers are development scripts which invoke the C, C++, and Fortran compiler with appropriate includes and libraries for HDF5-based application development.

An analogous (and correctly handled) situation is where the libopenmpi-dev package installs
   /usr/bin/mpiCC.openmpi
   /usr/bin/mpic++.openmpi
etc while libopenmpi1.3 does not.

[Rhys Ulerich (rhys-ulerich)]

Instead of moving these files between packages, another possible solution would be to have the libhdf5-*-dev packages prereq hdf5-tools.

Note also that neither the libhdf5-*mpi*-dev nor the hdf5-tools packages installs the 'h5pcc' MPI-parallel compilation wrapper script.

[Sylvestre Ledru (sylvestre)]

Could you report that upstream ? (ie Debian)

[Rhys Ulerich (rhys-ulerich)]

Filed upstream at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629157

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package hdf5 - 1.8.8-9

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hdf5 (1.8.8-9) unstable; urgency=low

  * Force the dependency on the serpack for hdf5-tools & hdf5-helpers.
    Thanks to Julien Cristau for the second fix.

 -- Sylvestre Ledru <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:09:28 +0100