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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Copyright by The HDF Group.
+# All rights reserved.
+#
+# This file is part of HDF5.  The full HDF5 copyright notice, including
+# terms governing use, modification, and redistribution, is contained in
+# the LICENSE file, which can be found at the root of the source code
+# distribution tree, or in https://www.hdfgroup.org/licenses.
+# If you do not have access to either file, you may request a copy from
+# help@hdfgroup.org.
+#
+
+# A convenience script to process HDF5 source. This recreates some header files
+# from their input files and runs the trace script to update the H5ARG_TRACE
+# macros.
+#
+# This does NOT regenerate the parser code in the high-level library, since
+# that would probably generate a lot of churn due to different flex, etc.
+# versions. If you want to regenerate that code, use the genparser script
+# from the bin directory.
+
+echo
+echo "******************************"
+echo "* HDF5 process source script *"
+echo "******************************"
+echo
+echo "*** NOTE: Must be run from the source root! ***"
+echo
+
+# Run trace script
+# The trace script updates H5ARG_TRACE macros in library source files.
+echo "Running arg trace script:"
+bin/trace src/H5*.c || exit 1
+echo
+
+# Run make_err
+# make_err automatically generates the H5E headers that create error message
+# types for HDF5.
+echo "Running error generation script:"
+bin/make_err src/H5err.txt || exit 1
+echo
+
+# Run make_vers
+# make_vers automatically generates the public headers that define the API version
+# macros for HDF5.
+echo "Running API version generation script:"
+bin/make_vers src/H5vers.txt || exit 1
+echo
+
+# Run make_overflow
+# make_overflow automatically generates macros for detecting overflows for type
+# conversion.
+echo "Running overflow macro generation script:"
+bin/make_overflow src/H5overflow.txt || exit 1
+echo
+
+echo "*** SUCCESS ***"
+
+echo
+exit 0