[Paraview] Buiding Paraview 3.2.3 with openmpi 1.2.6

[Berk Geveci]

Here is what is happening. During the build process, ParaView runs
vtkSMExtractDocumentation to generate its HTML documentation. This
executable is linked against most of what VTK requires. When the build
process tries to run vtkSMExtractDocumentation, it fails because the
MPI library cannot be found. This is due to the fact that
VTK_USE_RPATH is off. You have a few options to fix this problems:

* Turn VTK_USE_RPATH on - cons: make install will not work properly
* Add the MPI library path to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
* Upgrade to CVS ParaView.

-berk

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Bruce Pennypacker
<bruce.pennypacker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We have a cluster running 64-bit RedHat 5, and I'm trying to set up
> ParaView on it.  I first ran ccmake without specifying any MPI
> parameters (other than PARAVIEW_USE_MPI OFF) and it built without any
> problems. I then deleted by build directory to ensure a clean build
> and set up ccmake using the following:
>
>  BUILD_SHARED_LIBS                ON
>  CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
>  CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX             /opt/paraview/3.2.3
>  MPI_EXTRA_LIBRARY                /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.2.6/lib64/libmpi_cxx.so
>  MPI_INCLUDE_PATH                 /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.2.6/include
>  MPI_LIBRARY                      /usr/mpi/gcc/openmpi-1.2.6/lib64/libmpi.so
>  PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI            ON
>  PARAVIEW_DATA_ROOT               PARAVIEW_DATA_ROOT-NOTFOUND
>  PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON           ON
>  PARAVIEW_USE_MPI                 ON
>  QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE              /usr/lib64/qt4/bin/qmake
>  VTK_NO_PYTHON_THREADS            OFF
>  VTK_USE_BOOST                    OFF
>  VTK_USE_FFMPEG_ENCODER           OFF
>  VTK_USE_METAIO                   ON
>  VTK_USE_RPATH                    OFF
>  VTK_USE_VIEWS                    ON
>
> After generating the makefile and running make it gets about 80% of
> the way through the build and then it dies with the following error:
>
> /home/brucep/paraview-bin/bin/vtkSMExtractDocumentation-real: error
> while loading shared libraries: libmpi_cxx.so.0: cannot open shared
> object file: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [Documentation/ParaViewSources.html] Error 127
> make[1]: *** [Servers/ServerManager/CMakeFiles/HTMLDocumentation.dir/all]
> Error 2
>
> Why is it complaining that it can't find libmpi_cxx.so.0 when I have
> the full path to it specified in MPI_EXTRA_LIBRARY?  I've
> triple-checked that the path is correct. but I always get errors that
> it can't be found.
>
> -Bruce
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