[Paraview] 3.4.0 compilation broken due to xdfm / old hdf5

[Dominik Szczerba]

OK I will try CVS now and report back.

-- Dominik

Berk Geveci wrote:
> I fixed the cvs head so that it compiles with 4.3 after ParaView 3.4
> release. I am wondering if the issue Dominik is running into is still
> there on cvs head though. If hdf5 was pulling in some headers, and now
> it doesn't, some things may still be broken. Dominik, how hard is it
> for you to try cvs head?
> 
> -berk
> 
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:46 AM, John Biddiscombe <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
>> Berk, Dominik,
>>
>> I've been seeing new errors off this kind from users with gcc 4.3.1. Seems
>> like some includes that were pulled in by default are no longer. Or
>> something of that kind.
>>
>> +#include <stdio.h>
>> +#include <string.h>
>>
>> are exactly the ones I had to add (in various places). But there were lots
>> more problems and my main user eventually gave up compilation and went back
>> to 4.2.x
>>
>> JB
>>
>> Dominik,
>>
>> What is your compiler version? I couldn't duplicate this on the cvs
>> head but I have feeling that's because I am using gcc 4.0.
>>
>> -berk
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Dominik Szczerba <dominik at itis.ethz.ch>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Below is a fix, fedora 10, hdf5-1.6.8
>> -- Dominik
>>
>> --- XdmfObject.h.orig   2009-01-20 21:32:02.000000000 +0100
>> +++ XdmfObject.h        2009-01-20 21:30:45.000000000 +0100
>> @@ -82,6 +82,9 @@
>>  # ifdef UNIX
>>  #  include "sys/file.h"
>>  #  include "strings.h"
>> +/* DSZ */
>> +#include <stdio.h>
>> +#include <string.h>
>>  #  define STRCASECMP strcasecmp
>>  #  define STRNCASECMP strncasecmp
>>  #  define STRCMP strcmp
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 13:38 +0100, Dominik Szczerba wrote:
>>
>>
>> PV 3.4.0 + bundled hdf5 tandem is buggy somewhere, as reported long ago,
>> so I need a newer ("system") version of hdf5. However, compiling both
>> with hdf5 1.8.x and 1.6.8 breaks the compilation, e.g. errors with
>> 1.6.8:
>>
>> In file included
>> from /home/domel/pack/ParaView-3.4.0/Utilities/Xdmf2/libsrc/XdmfArray.h:29,
>>
>> from
>> /home/domel/pack/ParaView-3.4.0/Utilities/Xdmf2/libsrc/XdmfArray.cxx:26:
>> /home/domel/pack/ParaView-3.4.0/Utilities/Xdmf2/libsrc/XdmfDataDesc.h:
>> In member function 'XdmfInt32 XdmfDataDesc::SetHeavyDataSetName(const
>> char*)':
>> /home/domel/pack/ParaView-3.4.0/Utilities/Xdmf2/libsrc/XdmfDataDesc.h:198:
>> error: 'strcmp' was not declared in this scope
>> /home/domel/pack/ParaView-3.4.0/Utilities/Xdmf2/libsrc/XdmfDataDesc.h:198:
>> error: 'strlen' was not declared in this scope
>> /home/domel/pack/ParaView-3.4.0/Utilities/Xdmf2/libsrc/XdmfDataDesc.h:198:
>> error: 'strcpy' was not declared in this scope
>> (...)
>>
>> The simplest solution for me would be disabling Xdfm (the only user of
>> hdf5 in PV) that I don't need, but it is not possible, it is referenced
>> in the server code.
>>
>> 1) can xdfm be disabled at option?
>>
>> 2) how can I compile with a newer version of hdf5?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dominik
>>
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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computational Physics Group
IT'IS Foundation
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