hdf5 @1.8.16 broken configure with thread safe variant

[dolfimeth@…]

I think that the latest hdf5 port update broke (at least) the threadsafe variant.

This is the output of the log

checking for thread safe support... configure: error: The thread-safe library is incompatible with the high-level library. --disable-hl can be used to prevent building the high-level library (recommended). Alternatively, --enable-unsupported will allow building the high-level library, though this configuration is not supported by The HDF Group.

As advised by the message I added --disable-hl in the Portfile, attached a patch.

The problem is that this will afterwards break netcdf, because the netcdf4 port (enabled by default) requires the high-level interface that just got disabled.

My solution to that was:

sudo port deactivate -f netcdf@4.3.3.1_4+dap+netcdf4
sudo port install netcdf @4.3.3.1_4+dap-netcdf4

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please Cc the port maintainers (port info --maintainers hdf5 netcdf), if any.

[mamoll (Mark Moll)]

Committed in r142879.

[dolfimeth@…]

I realized later that a better approach might be introducing an hl variant which is enabled by default and if the user explicitly enables both it will fall back in the experimental section with --enable-unsupported.

Attached is a new patch doing that.

[mamoll (Mark Moll)]

Committed in r142935.