[Paraview] Compile error: unknown type name ‘sigjmp_buf’

[Ben Boeckel]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 15:14:13 -0500, John Moore wrote:
> I get the following error when compiling on Ubuntu 14.04
> 
> /home/john/local/ParaView/4.3.1/ParaView-v4.3.1-source/VTK/ThirdParty/hdf5/vtkhdf5/src/H5detect.c:149:1:
> error: unknown type name ‘sigjmp_buf’
>  static H5JMP_BUF jbuf_g;
> 
> I've installed HDF5 and its development tools. Any idea how I can fix this?

You can pass -DVTK_USE_SYSTEM_HDF5=ON to use your installed HDF5, but it
looks like HDF5's configure checks are failing thinking it doesn't have
setjmp.h (H5_HAVE_SETJMP_H) while it does manage to find sigjmp_buf
(H5JMP_BUF). Are those H5* variables set in your CMakeCache.txt at all?

Thanks,

--Ben