On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 18:59:57 +0100
Paul Garlick <pgarlick@tourbillion-technology.com> wrote:

> This fix ensures that the H5_HAVE_PARALLEL identifier is correctly set
> in the file H5pubconf.h.
> 
> * gnu/packages/maths.scm (hdf5-parallel-openmpi)[arguments]: Add
> the "--enable-parallel" flag to the list of configure flags.  Remove
> the incompatible "--enable-cxx" flag.  Add 'mpi-setup' phase.
> ---

LGTM!  Thanks!

BTW, I'm working on creating a package for hdf5 version 1.10.3.  There
are a couple packages, and maybe users, that still need 1.8, so I'm
adding it separately.

`~Eric