HDF5-1.8 Known Problems

This page lists some of the known problems in HDF5-1.8.1 both during and after release time.

Also See: [ HDF5 FAQ ]

Tools tests fail when build HDF5 1.8.1 with "make check install"

There is a bug in HDF5 1.8.1 when building the library with "make check install". We will be fixing this bug for the next release.

The workaround is to run each step separately:

If the .out files look good, proceed to the next step.

Building HDF5, the Object Header Test, "Testing message deletion", fails with the error "H5O_mtime_decode(): badly formatted".

This problem is due to an incorrect timestamp, and it will be fixed in HDF5 1.8.2. To ignore this test for now, see this Frequently Asked Question. You can also temporarily change the timezone to resolve the problem.

Here are details on the problem:

This problem can be reproduced by setting the TZ variable to "EET-2EEST", which is the timezone for Eastern Europe. The timestamp which causes this error is encoded as "19700101003321", which represents Jan. 1, 1970 00:33:21. When translating this to UTC time from mktime, 2 hours are subtracted, thus putting it pre-Epoch.

Known Problems At Release Time

RELEASE.txt

Known Problems in Previous Releases

You may also want to check the known problems in previous releases. Problems in the HDF5 1.6 releases can be seen in:

  Known Problems in HDF5-1.8.0

  Known Problems in HDF5-1.6.7

- - Last modified:May 16th 2011