[Paraview] (no subject)

[Ben Boeckel]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 14:16:03 -0500, Bishwajit Dutta wrote:
> http://midas3.kitware.com/midas/api/rest?method=midas.bitstream.download&checksum=b10bd3f7136ef809f1df7ad5c94c553f&algorithm=MD5
> ("Couldn't connect to server")
> 
> http://www.paraview.org/files/ExternalData/MD5/b10bd3f7136ef809f1df7ad5c94c553f
> ("Couldn't connect to server")

This indicates that you can't contact the host. Does it work if you
change the URLs to use `https` in CMake/vtkExternalData.cmake?

> Also I wanted to run a paraview python script with CPU acceleration. Will
> this compilation generate
> pvpython and can I pass it  --mesa-llvm for running the script (I assume by
> default it will use GPU acceleration as I have NVIDIA GPU on my system)?

5.0.0 did not have support for that flag (I think). That flag also
assumes certain things about the way ParaView was built (namely that
Mesa is available under `lib/paraview-5.x/mesa`).

--Ben