[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] Re: ParaView superbuild and Source

[Shawn Waldon]

Alan,

I don't know the answer...  Did you figure it out?  I was hoping that Ben
would chime in since he's back from vacation this week.  I agree with you
though: we need to figure out the right way to do it and update the docs.

Ben?

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:17 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:

> Shawn,
>
> OK – with this one issue I have dug a bit deeper.  What I had was
> according to the directions on the ParaView Superbuild site, located here:
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild.  You told me to
> do something different.  Neither appears to work.  So, issue number one is
> to figure what we need to do, and get it working correctly, and second is
> to update the docs.
>
>
>
> Help?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>
> Alan
>
>
>
> *From:* Shawn Waldon [mailto:shawn.waldon at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2016 3:22 PM
> *To:* Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>; Chuck Atkins <
> chuck.atkins at kitware.com>; Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel at kitware.com>
> *Cc:* paraview-developers at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] ParaView superbuild
> and Source
>
>
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> As far as I know that should have worked.  I'm CCing some of the folks who
> work more on the superbuild than I do.  Some answers are also inline below.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
> Hi Shawn,
>
> Nope, once again the Superbuild is downloading from the web.  Any other
> ideas?  I wrote up details here: https://gitlab.kitware.com/
> paraview/paraview/issues/17059.
>
>
>
> Not at the moment.  I remembered enough from helping test this that I
> could look up the variable names.  You could use ccmake to check they are
> spelled correctly but AFAIK that should work.
>
>
>
> Are there tests for this stuff in the nightly testing suite?  This has bit
> me at least half a dozen times at this point…
>
>
>
> We test the local source directory case on the buildbots.  But I don't
> know if we actually make sure it is using the right source... I'll double
> check.
>
>
>
> Shawn
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Shawn Waldon [mailto:shawn.waldon at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 30, 2016 1:13 PM
> *To:* Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov>
> *Cc:* paraview-developers at paraview.org
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] ParaView superbuild and
> Source
>
>
>
> Alan,
>
> We refactored the superbuild so that other projects than paraview could
> have multiple possible sources.  The new variable is
> paraview_SOURCE_SELECTION.  The options are '5.2.0' (downloads tarball from
> paraview.org and the default), 'git' (pulls git master), and 'source'
> which uses an external source dir.  The git and source options are
> customizable with other variables (to specify which source dir or which git
> branch/tag to use).  I think what you want now is this:
>
> cMakeVars = cMakeVars +\
>
>     '-Dparaview_SOURCE_SELECTION:STRING=source '+\
>
>     '-Dparaview_SOURCE_DIR:PATH='+pvSrcDir+' '
>
> The first one has the same effect as the first two in your example and the
> last one sets the path to the source dir of ParaView.
>
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Shawn
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Scott, W Alan <wascott at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
> I have set the following variables, attempting to turn off Paraview’s
> downloading from the paraview.org website.  Yet, SuperBuild is
> downloading everything externally!  What am I doing wrong?  How can I make
> ParaView not do this download and just fail?  Are the switches just ignored?
>
>
>
>
>
> cMakeVars = cMakeVars +\
>
>         '-DParaView_FROM_GIT:BOOL=OFF '+\
>
>         '-DParaView_FROM_SOURCE_DIR:BOOL=ON '+\
>
>         '-DPARAVIEW_SOURCE_DIR:PATH='+pvSrcDir+' '
>
>
>
>
>
> Groan.
>
>
>
> Alan
>
>
>
>
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