Compiling GDAL with HDF5 support on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libhdf5-openmpi-dev
export CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/lib/openmpi/include/
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/lib/openmpi/lib/
export LIBS=”-lmpi -lmpi_cxx”
./configure
sudo make install
Posted on Friday December 12th