[Paraview-developers] Bad superbuild

[Ben Boeckel]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 18:58:37 +0000, Scott, W Alan wrote:
> I am trying to build clusters (again) with the superbuild.  This is
> Linux, master.  I am using the gnu compiler and openmpi for gnu.  I am
> having issues with MPI.  I am trying to use a system installed MPI.
> 
> Here is what I am sending to cmake:
> cMakeVars =
> -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/projects/viz/paraview/ParaView/5.1.1-sb-mesa/Linux-chama-x86_64
> -DBUILD_TESTING:BOOL=OFF -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE:STRING=Debug
> -DParaView_FROM_GIT:BOOL=OFF -DParaView_FROM_SOURCE_DIR:BOOL=ON
> -DPARAVIEW_SOURCE_DIR:PATH=/projects/viz/paraview/src/ParaView/5.1.1-sb/ParaView5
> -DPARAVIEW_ALWAYS_SECURE_CONNECTION:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_paraview:BOOL=ON
> -DENABLE_ffmpeg:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_python:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_numpy:BOOL=ON
> -DENABLE_png:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_osmesa:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_cgns:BOOL=ON
> -DENABLE_silo:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_visitbridge:BOOL=ON
> -DMPI_COMPILER:FILEPATH=/opt/openmpi-1.8-gnu//bin/mpicxx
> -DPARAVIEW_ALWAYS_SECURE_CONNECTION:BOOL=ON -DENABLE_mpi:BOOL=ON
> -DPARAVIEW_USE_MPI:BOOL=ON
> -DMPI_INCLUDE_PATH:PATH=/opt/openmpi-1.8-gnu//include/

It looks like you forgot to pass USE_SYSTEM_mpi=ON, so it is building
its own MPI rather than the one you told it about. Do you see MPI bits
in the install/ directory? If so, it's not using the MPI you want.

--Ben