To enable Dynamic Allocation Functions, features from ISO/IEC TR 24731-2:2010,
the macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__ hs to be defined to 1 before to the stdio.h
header is included.

diff -urN hdf5-1.14.5/src/H5private.h.orig hdf5-1.14.5/src/H5private.h
--- hdf5-1.14.5/src/H5private.h.orig	2024-09-30 18:07:53.000000000 +0200
+++ hdf5-1.14.5/src/H5private.h	2024-10-29 17:09:55.936592100 +0100
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
 #ifndef H5private_H
 #define H5private_H
 
+#define __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__ 1  // define for TR 24731-2:2010 extensions (e.g., vasprintf)
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+
 #include "H5public.h" /* Include Public Definitions    */
 
 #include <assert.h>