Bug#660547: Please re-enable C++ libraries

[Francesco P. Lovergine]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 09:34:20AM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> First because having more than one shared lib per binary package is a
> recipe for trouble down the road.  Second, the c++ libs were only built
> with the serial libhdf5 variant, not with any of the mpi ones; I don't
> know why, and am not familiar enough with hdf5 to know if that makes any
> difference.
> 

http://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf5-quest.html#p5thread, basically current
C++ abstract model is far from being perfect and lacks support for
concurrency in all senses. Indeed is quite common seeing alternative
implementation around, e.g. by using boost, templates and the C API.
E.g. https://github.com/jsharpe/hdf5/tree/master/hdf5

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Francesco P. Lovergine