Re: is there a way to determine installed HDF5 version during configuration?

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• Subject: Re: is there a way to determine installed HDF5 version during configuration?
• From: Quincey Koziol <koziol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 15:41:44 -0500 (CDT)

Hi Ed,

> Is there a way for my configure script to know what version of HDF5 is
> installed? For example, some way to get the version from a command
> line?

    It's not terribly graceful, but you could grep for "HDF5 Version" in the
libhdf5.settings file that is installed.  'h5cc -showconfig' may also work.

    Quincey

• References:
  • is there a way to determine installed HDF5 version during
    • From: Ed Hartnett