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Assuming that you're using gcc, try this:

LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/hdf5/lib rosmake pcl

If there are shared libraries in there, you'll also need to add that directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime to execute programs that link against hdf5.

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