Anyone know status of HDF5 build problems?

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Thank you @djsegal ! Success!

To clarify @djsegal’s suggestion a little, I:

  • Went to the Homebrew website, downloaded and installed Homebrew normally (i.e. not through Julia)
  • ran brew install hdf5 in the terminal (not in julia)
  • THEN did Pkg.build("HDF5") in julia (0.6.3).

Success!

More generally, though, this still seems like a big general problem for new users – being able to read data and save things seems pretty central to Julia. Surely we can make this install work better?

(Sorry – I know it’s bad form to push for a fix to something open source if you aren’t in a position to do it oneself, but in this case I know NOTHING about gcc or homebrew, so am really not in a position to offer PRs. :frowning: )

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