[Paraview] request general advice for building paraview on x86-64 Opteron

[John Biddiscombe]

>I recently build paraview on Intel EMT. I encountered one compile
>error (linker actually) while linking to MPICH I compiled myself. I
>was linking against a static mpich library and the linker complained I
>had to recompile mpich with fpic. When I linked against a shared
>mpich, everything worked fine. I should note that I was building
>paraview shared too. I did not try static.
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>>Would anyone be willing to share their experience or advice for building ParaView and / or VTK on the x86-64 platform? I greatly appreciate any comments or suggestions you may have.
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I'll Second this. Anything you build yourself will be fine, because you 
can control the flags, but watch out for any third party libs you link 
against. I had a lot of trouble on a red hat box because it would link 
by default to everything in /usr/lib and I had to manually edit 
makefiles to link against /usr/lib64 in particular when running cmake, 
make sure you don't pick up the wrong libs in some of the X11R6/... 
directories and modify all the paths if necessary. I'm not sure how many 
distributions use lib and lib64 as distinct and different - but I found 
fedora core 3 was a lot of trouble in this respect. However if you know 
what you're doing (and I didn't because I'm new to linux), then you 
should be fine.

JB


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