Error: too many arguments to function 'H5Dcreate'

When trying to build Slurm on a system that has HDF5 prior to version 1.8, the compilation will fail with errors such as:

hdf5_api.c:2021: error: too many arguments to function 'H5Dcreate'

To fix it, please make the following modification to the slurm.spec file:

1. Un-tar the source file:

tar xvf XXXX.tar.bz2

2. Edit slurm.spec file:

vi slurm.spec

3. Locate %build and add the following at the end of the parameters:

--with-hdf5=no