[Paraview] Query on ccmake for building Paraview

[Ben Boeckel]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 04:43:41 -0500, Bishwajit Dutta wrote:
> CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are
> set to NOTFOUND.
> Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake
> files:
> CURSES_CURSES_H_PATH
>    used as include directory in directory
> /home/ubuntu/Paraview/cmake-2.8.8/Source
>    used as include directory in directory
> /home/ubuntu/Paraview/cmake-2.8.8/Source
>    used as include directory in directory
> /home/ubuntu/Paraview/cmake-2.8.8/Source
>    used as include directory in directory
> /home/ubuntu/Paraview/cmake-2.8.8/Source
>    used as include directory in directory
> /home/ubuntu/Paraview/cmake-2.8.8/Source
>    used as include directory in directory
> /home/ubuntu/Paraview/cmake-2.8.8/Source
>    used as include directory in directory
> /home/ubuntu/Paraview/cmake-2.8.8/Source

You're missing the libcurses5-dev package.

> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
> ---------------------------------------------
> Error when bootstrapping CMake:
> Problem while running initial CMake
> ---------------------------------------------
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Also with cmake 2.8.8 I am planning to build Paraview 4.2.0 for ARM
> processor with ubuntu . Do you see any potential problem with this?

ParaView does not receive regular testing on ARM platforms even today,
and certainly not in the 4.2.0 days (VTK does, but it is for iOS and
Android mainly).

--Ben