[Paraview] Is there any point to compiling with MPI but without offscreen rendering?

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed Oct 17 23:51:29 EDT 2012


On 10/09/2012 11:55 AM, Cook, Rich wrote:
> As a user, I would prefer a single compile which links against OSMesa
> AND OpenGL AND MPI if they are available, but uses whatever the user
> chooses at runtime.  This requires code logic to handle, with #ifdefs to
> handle the case where some feature is not available at compile time, and
> additional if/then statements in C to handle the user choice, but seems
> doable and would vastly simplify compilation, installation and usage.
> Thanks

As a packager, I believe this is important to achieve as well.


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