[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#565216: Bug#565216: octave3.2: hdf5 failure with load()

John W. Eaton jwe at octave.org
Thu Jan 14 00:28:53 UTC 2010


On 14-Jan-2010, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

| On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 06:19:58PM -0500, John W. Eaton wrote:
| > On 13-Jan-2010, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
| > 
| > | As reported in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299876 also in
| > | Debian octave there's a problem in hdf5 format management and that's
| > | very unfortunate because hdf5 is quite an important format.
| > 
| > It is best to report generic bugs in Octave directly to the
| > bug at octave.org mailing list and use the debian bug reporting system
| > for packaging or Debian-specific problems.
| > 
| > Please include enough information in your report so that someone might
| > have a chance to actually reproduce the error.  For example, your
| > report below is incomplete because it does not include a file that
| > fails to load.  Unless you can provide some code that will generate an
| > unloadable file, then please include one.  Please don't expect us to
| > be able to guess how to generate a file that will not load properly.
| > 
| > jwe
| 
| A sample file is attached to the gentoo report and here enclosed. It is
| correctly dumped by hdf5 tools.

How did you create the file?

Octave's load function is only designed to load HDF5 files created by
Octave.  There is no guarantee that it can load any and all arbitrary
HDF5 files.  If it loads anything else, then it was just luck.

jwe





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