[Paraview] Paraview vs. nVidia Driver

[Rick Angelini]

David - I came to the same exact conclusion.     When I jumped to 
openMPI-1.3 I was able to get a clean build and execution.    Strange.

David C Thompson wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had any trouble building Paraview with the latest nVidia GL
> > libraries?  On both RH4 and RH5, we've not been able to compile Paraview
> > 3.4.0 (or 3.2.1) against nVidia driver 180.22 or 180.25.    We can build
> > against nVidia driver 173.14.xx.   Also, if we build on a system that
> > has driver 173.14.xx and then try to execute 'paraview' on a system with
> > a 180.22 driver, we also get a floating point exception error.  
>
> I've had a similar problem on Fedora 10, but only when MPI support is
> turned on and linking to openmpi-1.2.x (where x is 4 or 8). Carefully
> uninstalling all vestiges of the nvidia drivers, re-installing just the
> 180.25 drivers, and building against openmpi-1.3.0 solved the problem.
>
> I am not sure how critical the nvidia stuff was to the process but it's
> something I did when I was looking into the issue -- I noticed that
> NVidia's *.pkg.run script had put some libraries in a different
> directory than the rpms from rpmfusion-nonfree and so both coexisted
> (and might have caused problems where we linked to one but loaded the
> other at runtime).
>
> In any event the floating point exception seemed to be coming from the
> openmpi-opal library's override of malloc.
>
>         Hope this helps,
>         David
>
> >
> > The compile failure is a floating point exception and looks like this:
> >
> > [89%] Built target pvpython-real
> > Scanning dependencies of target pvbatch
> > Scanning dependencies of target pvpython
> > /bin/sh: line 1: 28655 Floating point
> > exception../../bin/vtkSMExtractDocumentation
> > /build/ParaView-3.2.1-x86_64-RHEL/Documentation
> > /build/src/ParaView3.2.1/Qt/Components/Resources/XML/ParaViewWriters.xml
> > make[2]: *** [Documentation/ParaViewWriters.html] Error 136
> > make[1]: ***
> > [Servers/ServerManager/CMakeFiles/HTMLDocumentation.dir/all] Error 2
> > make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
> >
> >
> >
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