[Paraview] Black render view with python & MPI build

[Berk Geveci]

> The OpenGL (Mesa) libraries are static in all cases.
>
>  Is this likely to be the problem?

Possibly. I do this on Linux regularly and I didn't run into any
issues yet. However, I am told that it is dangerous thing to do.
Something about all shared libraries importing symbols from the static
libraries independently.

-berk

>
>  I'll try doing a build with shared libs for Mesa instead.
>
>
>  Cheers
>
>  - Iain
>
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>  Iain Bethune
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> -----Original Message-----
>  From: Berk Geveci [mailto:berk.geveci at kitware.com]
>  Sent: 10 April 2008 17:46
>  To: Iain Bethune
>  Cc: paraview at paraview.org
>  Subject: Re: [Paraview] Black render view with python & MPI build
>
>  What about the OpenGL libraries? Are they static or shared?
>
>  On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Iain Bethune <ibethune at epcc.ed.ac.uk>
>  wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  >  I have build a number of different configurations (PV 3.2.1) and the
>  >  following ones work OK:
>  >
>  >  Paraview serial with python
>  >  Paraview with MPI without python (static libs)
>  >
>  >  But not
>  >
>  >  Paraview with MPI with python (shared libs).
>  >  Paraview with MPI withoutpython (shared libs).
>  >
>  >  In these cases I can run a server (one or many MPI tasks) and connect to
>  it
>  >  OK.  It will read files, and run filters OK, but all I ever see is a
>  black
>  >  render view.  The trigger for this appears to be any build where I set
>  >  BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON and PARAVIEW_USE_MPI=ON.  I have tried MPI on, and
>  >  shared libs off and this works fine, but unfortunately if I want to build
>  >  with python I am forced into using shared libs.
>  >
>  >  There are no error messages logged on the client or server side as far as
>  I
>  >  can see, just nothing appears in the render view except the XYZ axes (but
>  >  not the centre-of-rotation crosshairs).
>  >
>  >  Any ideas how to go about debugging this, or what I might be able to do
>  to
>  >  work around this?
>  >
>  >  Cheers
>  >
>  >  - Iain
>  >
>  >  --
>  >  Iain Bethune
>  >  Applications Consultant, EPCC
>  >
>  >  Email: ibethune at epcc.ed.ac.uk
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