[Paraview] Paraview on Aix

[Mark A. Bolstad]

After about 3 weeks of struggling with the #%*& IBM, I got a 64-bit
version to compile. I remember having two problems that I had to patch:
 1. Add "class vtkKWFrame;" to
GUI/Client/vtkPVHorizontalAnimationInterface.h
 2. I had some problem with one of the standard stream interfaces
(ostrstr?) but I don't remember which one.

The error you're seeing is that the IBM is trying to run an executable
that is parallel (my experience is MPI here, so I'll use that). The
standard IBM MPI way is 
 mpiexec -n 1 paraview -hfile file_containing_name_of_hosts_to_run_on

Now, if you're seeing this while running ccmake, then with the options
that you've selected is causing cmake to generate it's helper/test apps
with parallel options. The best way I found to fix it is to jam all of
the parallel options onto the MPI_ lines in the cmake config. That way,
only executables that are linked with the mpi libraries need the mpiexec
to run.

Hope this helps,

Mark

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 14:54 -0600, eugenec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried installing the latest build of paraview (2.0.2) on an IBM p690 
> machine running AIX 5.2 and ran into some problems.
> After configuring ccmake, and trying to make, we got the following error:
> 
> Error 0031-808: Hostfile or pool must be used to request node.
> 
> Also, in place of MPI we are trying to use POE, and tried changing the ccmake 
> parameters to that fact.
> 
> Has anyone else managed to get Paraview to run successfully on AIX? Any 
> guidelines or tips that we should try to get this up and running? Thanks alot.
> 
> Eugene Chan
> 
> 
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