[Paraview] PV on XT

[pat marion]

Ok, I just added the patch to cvs.

Pat

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 6:08 PM, pat marion <pat.marion at kitware.com> wrote:

> 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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