"make check" fails when installing HDF5

Question

I downloaded hdf5-1.8.15-patch1.tar.bz2, and tried to install it on my Ubuntu, with this command:

    CC=mpicc ./configure --enable-parallel --enable-shared
    make
    make check

yet during make check, I got this error:

***** 1 FAILURE! *****
Command exited with non-zero status 1
0.78user 0.08system 0:00.86elapsed 100%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 10216maxresident)k
0inputs+1224outputs (0major+51752minor)pagefaults 0swaps
make[4]: *** [dt_arith.chkexe_] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/tools/hdf5-1.8.15-patch1/test'
make[3]: *** [build-check-s] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/tools/hdf5-1.8.15-patch1/test'
make[2]: *** [test] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/tools/hdf5-1.8.15-patch1/test'
make[1]: *** [check-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ubuntu/tools/hdf5-1.8.15-patch1/test'
make: *** [check-recursive] Error 1

this is my 'uname -a' and 'gcc -v':

    uname -a
    Linux ip-172-31-23-30 3.13.0-29-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 4 21:00:20 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

    gcc -v
    gcc version 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1)

Answer 1

It seems worth trying with lower optimizations flags (-O1 or -O0) following previous issues: https://support.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/known_problems/previssues.html