From bd98469a827b0d0d5a9be50b95e841738ef85c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joshua Lampert <51029046+JoshuaLampert@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 07:37:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add docs of set_libraries! for setting custom HDF5 library
 (#1658)

---
 docs/src/parallelization.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/src/parallelization.md b/docs/src/parallelization.md
index e55471bb256..610aa2cbd95 100644
--- a/docs/src/parallelization.md
+++ b/docs/src/parallelization.md
@@ -186,6 +186,11 @@ julia> set_preferences!(
            "libhdf5" => "/path/to/your/libhdf5.so",
            "libhdf5_hl" => "/path/to/your/libhdf5_hl.so", force = true)
 ```
+Alternatively, with HDF5.jl v0.17.1 or higher you can use
+```julia
+julia> using HDF5
+julia> HDF5.API.set_libraries!("/path/to/your/libhdf5.so", "/path/to/your/libhdf5_hl.so")
+```
 For more information see also the
 [documentation of HDF5.jl](https://juliaio.github.io/HDF5.jl/stable/mpi/). In total, you should
 have a file called LocalPreferences.toml in the project directory that contains a section