[hdf5] build failure when using version 1.10.5-12 with baselines after tag 2024.11.16

[wilyle]

Operating system

Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (WSL)

Compiler

GCC

Steps to reproduce the behavior

`vcpkg install` with the following manifest:


{
  "name": "hdf5-1-10-error",
  "homepage": "http://example.com",
  "description": "Minimal example to reproduce HDF5 build error with older versions on newer baselines",
  "dependencies": [
    {
      "name": "hdf5",
      "features": [ "zlib", "cpp" ]
    }
  ],
  "builtin-baseline": "b2cb0da531c2f1f740045bfe7c4dac59f0b2b69c",
  "overrides": [
    {
      "name": "hdf5",
      "version": "1.10.5-12"
    }
  ]
}

Failure logs

$ $VCPKG_ROOT/vcpkg install
error: the baseline does not contain an entry for port szip

Additional context

For technical reasons, we need to use hdf5 with the 1.10 API. Upgrading to the latest version is infeasible at this time. I am aware of the -DH5_USE_110_API CMake flag which is supposed to allow usage of the 1.10 API with later versions of the package, but using this in practice caused multiple test failures and should also be considered infeasible.

Investigating a bit, it appears that hdf5 version 1.10.5-12 relies on szip. However, this was removed with #38107 and VCPKG can't figure out what to do with this older version anymore. How can we use this version of hdf5 with later baselines? This is preventing baseline updates, which prevents us from ensuring packages are up-to-date and integrating new changes and will probably become a security issue before too long. Is there a way to continue using this version of hdf5 with newer baselines, or are we forced to update to later versions of hdf5?

[dg0yt]

You need to add an overrides entry for szip, too.

[wilyle]

Thanks, this appears to have solved the issue. Looking at the build output from the previous baseline we were using I used version 2.1.1#12 of szip.

Is there a particular reason this was completely removed?