From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Sun Jul  2 19:23:42 2000
Subject: Re: HDF5 patch
From: "Steven G. Johnson" <stevenj at gil-galad dot mit dot edu>
To: Teemu Ikonen <tpikonen at pcu dot helsinki dot fi>
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 20:25:53 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Teemu Ikonen wrote:
> [...] but I had to change the Makefiles by hand since my hdf5 library
> is in a non-standard directory.

(This is a somewhat late response, but I've been away at a conference.)
When you install libraries in non-standard directories, you have to add
the directories to your LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS environment variables to get
configure scripts to find them, in general.  This is a standard mechanism.
(There is no way for configure to magically know in what random place
you've installed something).

Cordially,
Steven G. Johnson



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