[DebianGIS-dev] Bug#556439: Bug#556439: -lmfhdf alone should imply -ldf, too

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

tags 556439 + upstream
thanks

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:39:57PM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> Package: libhdf4-dev
> Version: 4.2r4-6
> Severity: minor
> 
> 	Currently, linking against libmfhdf.so alone fails like:
> 

This is an upstream historical choice. The hdf4 interface is frozen since years
and official documentation requires you explicit link both libs:

http://www.hdfgroup.org/training/HDFtraining/tutorial/compile.html

I suspect no changes will be done about that in the near future.

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Francesco P. Lovergine