[Paraview] COMPILE AND RUN pvBatch with h5py support errors

[Ben Boeckel]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 14:54:11 +0200, Nabil Ghodbane wrote:
> dear experts,
> on a CentOS6.8 x86_64 node, I used the Superbuild to compile Paraview
> 5.3.0-1 with dev tool 4 (which provides gcc 5.3 )
> 
> As shown on the attached screen captures, In the CCMAKE configuration, I
> enabled Python with Matplot, Scipy, Numpy.
> 
> Once the compilation finished, I successfully added the h5py package
> but if I start pvBatch or pvpython, i can see some error messages about the
> hashlib module.
> 
> 
> *ValueError: unsupported hash type sha384ERROR   : code for hash sha512 was
> not found.*
> 
> This issue seems to be more a Python bug, than a Paraview issue. But maybe
> someone on this mailing list did experience the issue. In case, I will be
> grateful, if he or she could share his experience on how he/she solved this
> issue.

I think this is usually an issue with openssl headers not being
available when compiling Python. Does installing openssl-devel and
forcing a rebuild of Python (cd $builddir; rm -rf superbuild/python) fix
the issue?

--Ben