[Paraview] ParaView 5.3.0 and Qt5 linking error

[Fabian Wein]

Hi,

in case you want to use superbuild, gcc 6.3.1 compiles qt 5.8.0 from PV 5.3 
for me without any problems. Why do you want to use precompiled qt? 
On a fast Linux I build PV 5.3 superbuild with qt in ~30 min.

If you want to compile qt-everywhere manually be warned, a plain configure
took hours and many GBs for me - apparently all combinations of debug/relase/…
were built. 

> I am here working on an Arch Linux system. What kind of standard library do 
> you mean? I compiled GCC (6.2.0) and MPI (1.10.4) by myself.
> 
> Btw you are right, the precompiled Qt libraries probably need older standard 
> libraries. Maybe the GCC-6.2.0 is the problem. I also tried the precompiled 
> Qt5 library in version 5.8.0. It does not work. The system Qt5 libraries (fom 
> Arch repo) seem to be functional though.
> 
> Thx for your response!
> 
> Tobi
> 
> 
> On Friday, April 21, 2017 2:56:27 PM CEST Ben Boeckel wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 14:38:30 +0200, Tobias D wrote:
>>> Following error is thrown:
>>> [100%] Linking CXX executable
>>> ../bin/pvserver../lib/libvtkPVServerManagerApplication- pv5.3.so.1:
>>> undefined reference to `__cxa_throw_bad_array_new_length at Qt_5'collect2:
>>> error: ld returned 1 exit status
>> 
>> <snip>
>> 
>>> - Qt 5.6.2 (precompiled from qt-project.org)
>> 
>> It looks like Qt5 is linking a different (or expecting a newer) standard
>> library than you have available on your machine. What distro are you
>> using?
>> 
>> --Ben
> 
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