[Paraview] failed build on AIX

[Adam Ingram-Goble]

Thanks for the reply. I've got a few questions about the overall
proceedure before I give it another go:
 
1) I know little to nothing about AIX and its compilers, but based on
   what I saw at the NCSA's site for their IBM 690s I need to use mpcc
   and mpCC for doing 32-bit mpi work. I'm trying to build the
   software so that it will take advantage of the multinode system.  
   Can be done without the use of MPI (i.e. just use the xlc_r and gcc
   compilers)?

2) Related to 1), do I need to worry about compiling tcl/tk and vtk
   with special compilers, or (vtk specific) is setting the option
   VTK_USE_PARALLEL going to be "enough"? Apparently the tcl configure
   script doesn't find the pthreads lib and header even though they're
   in /usr/lib and /usr/include, and I didn't see what I considered a
   safe place to add the flags in the Makefile that configure
   generated (this was using xlc and gcc) on copper.ncsa.uiuc.edu, so
   if I will need to build it with threads for the multinode use, a
   suggestion about where to add the gcc flags would be useful.

Thank you in advance for any help/education you can provide. This
looks like an extremely cool set of tools, I can't wait to get this
stuff working.

adam

* Berk Geveci (berk . geveci at kitware . com) wrote:
> A few suggestions:
> 
> 1. Make sure you have the latest CMake release
> 
> 2. Compile ParaView 1.0.2 (I know it's alpha but
> it's pretty stable. We will do a beta or release
> soon)
> 
> 3. Try using standard compilers instead of mpcc.
> These tend be wrappers around normal compilers anyway.
> They usually add a few compiler flags. You should
> be able to add these manually. I am suggesting this
> because CMake might not set the flags for mpcc properly
> 
> 4. Describe the errors you get in more detail. Copy and
> past part of the output into your e-mail if necessary 
> 
> 5. Describe the cmake problems you encounter in more
> detail
> 
> 6. Keep asking questions until you get the answers you
> need :-)
> 
> On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 17:37, Adam Ingram-Goble wrote:
> > Hi all!
> > 
> >   I'm trying to build VTK & ParaView on an IBM 690 and have run into
> >   several problems. If anyone has general help about working with AIX
> >   that would be appreciated, but the specific list of problems I've
> >   run into is:
> > 
> >   1) in building ParaViewComplete06 elements of the Wrapping code for
> >   tcl are missing.
> > 
> >   2) I get MPCI errors when trying to use the mpcc and mpCC_r
> >   compilers to take advantage of the multinode system I'm building on.
> > 
> >   I've tried the cvs version from this morning, but get similar
> >   errors.
> > 
> >   At this moment, I'm at a loss for what to do. I've just started
> >   using these tools, but it seems that cmake doesn't behave nicely on
> >   the system i'm using (not sure if this is term type problem or not).
> >   Also I'm not terribly savy with using and subsequently modifying the
> >   output of cmake.
> > 
> >   Any help is appreciated.
> 

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