[scilab-Users] Building Scilab 5.3.0-beta 4 on Fedora 13

[Rob Farmer]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 21:22, Dean S. Messing <deanm at sharplabs.com> wrote:
> I've spent too much time on this now to give up. :-) I've also made some
> progress since I first wrote, thanks to the help I've received and lots
> and lots of Googling.  Anyway, back to getting ./configure to complete
> with errors.

I didn't look in detail and may be wrong, but based on a quick skim of
the configure script, it seems to get your error, the following Java
program worked:

import ncsa.hdf.hdf5lib.HDF5Constants;

public class conftest {
    public static void main(String[] argv) {

    }
}

But this didn't:

import ncsa.hdf.hdf5lib.H5;

public class conftest {
    public static void main(String[] argv) {
        String minVersion="1.8.4";
                            int[] vers = new int[3];
                try { H5.H5get_libversion(vers); }
                catch (Throwable ex) {System.exit(-1);}
                String ver = vers[0] + "."+ vers[1] +"."+vers[2];

                            System.out.println(ver);
                                  if (minVersion.compareTo(ver) < 0) {
                                   System.exit(-1);
                                }

    }
}

So maybe try saving this and running it to see what is going on? (It
is lines 19010-19024 of configure in beta 4 if you don't want to copy
from email). Most likely you have the right version, but it just needs
nudged to find it properly. If you are comfortable reading shell
scripts, I personally would just look at configure itself rather than
try to interpret the output.

-- 
Rob Farmer