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authorThomas White <taw@physics.org>2014-03-21 16:51:37 +0100
committerThomas White <taw@physics.org>2014-03-24 12:06:00 +0100
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HDF5 thread safety no longer required
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@@ -117,12 +117,6 @@ At a minimum, you will need the HDF5 library (version 1.8.0 or later) and the
GNU Scientific Library (GSL). For a full installation, you will also need
libTIFF, libPNG, Cairo and GTK.
-You must use an installation of the HDF5 library which is thread safe. That
-means it must have been configured with the "--enable-threadsafe" option. Most
-binary distributions appear NOT to be like this. If you don't have a thread
-safe HDF5 library, just be sure not to use the "-j" option for any of the
-CrystFEL programs.
-
If you're compiling on Mac OS X, where GTK, libPNG and libTIFF seem to be much
harder to come by, disable lots of things: