[Paraview] PV on XT

[pat marion]

You're right.  I still think it would be nicer to have a cmake variable than
using the bluegene & cray defines, but I don't object to committing
__CRAYXT_COMPUTE_LINUX_TARGET for now.

Pat

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 7:50 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Pat,
>
> Shouldn't it work without any changes to cmake because Cray compiler
> wrappers (CC and cc) define __CRAYXT_COMPUTE_LINUX_TARGET on the compile
> line? At least this is true on the XT5. eg CC -v to show what's there.
>
> Burlen
>
> pat marion wrote:
>
>> That patch only works if you use a customized cmake platform file that
>> contains the line-
>>
>>    SET(CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME CRAYXT_COMPUTE_LINUX)
>>
>> I've been discussing with Bill Hoffman a more general solution.  It will
>> probably involve new cmake variable that is configured into
>> DynamicLoader.hxx.in <http://dynamicloader.hxx.in/>.  The variable could
>> be set by a platform file or a try-compile test.
>>
>>
>> A separate issue- we're running into fragmentation of the cross-compile
>> instructions.  There are now a few different wiki pages.  The one Burlen
>> linked to was written by John Patchet in January based on my build notes and
>> his own experiences.  My notes are in a github repository <
>> http://github.com/patmarion/crosscompiling-paraview> and that wiki page
>> is no longer in sync with them.
>>
>> Pat
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <
>> utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com <mailto:utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    I don't see why not. Pat, any objections?
>>
>>    Utkarsh
>>
>>    On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 7:46 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com
>>    <mailto:burlen.loring at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>    > When building PV on a Cray XT you have to patch the DynamicLoader.
>>    >
>>    >
>>
>> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Cross_compiling_ParaView3_and_VTK#XT4_ParaView_3.6.2
>>    >
>>    > Is that something that should make it into 3.8?
>>    >
>>    >
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