[vtk-developers] Problem with VTK on Compaq SC45/OSF1

[Randall Hand]

I was asked to clarify that 2nd statement a bit, so here goes.

When I did all this testing, I *know* that /usr/bin was the first entry in
my path, it's in my ~/.cshrc file to be so.  But when I ran cmake, it pulled
from /usr/local/bin.  Now, with a test today, it's correctly getting
/usr/bin .   Why is it doing this?  I haven't the foggiest.

My guess is that a combination of systems configuration changes & Security
things going on at the site the last few weeks have got things changing by
the minute.  I don't think this is any fault of CMake, more a fault of this
system configuration and all the wacky stuff it has setup.  The GNU tools
just don't work (segfault, IOT, do nothing, it varies), and each compiler &
tool is in a different directory, referenced by shell-scripted symlink
wrappers. It's a mess, and not something I expect is very "standard".

On 2/27/06, Randall Hand <randall.hand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, time for the final results :)
>
> Finally got VTK & Cmake compiled & installed on our SC45 OSF system.  The
> problem was in a few different parts:
>    1) The linker was linking against the wrong libcxx.so.  Unsure why it
> was pulling from /usr/shlib instead of the compiler directory, but that was
> the source of the problem.   Even after updating my LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
> include the correct directory as the first entry, it wouldn't work. Had to
> recompile the app.
>    2) CMake was pulling AR & RANLIB from the wrong directory, irrespective
> of the PATH.  When I manually set the CMAKE_AR and CMAKE_RANLIB to the
> proper ones with fully qualified path, everything worked.
>
> Hopefully I can get a dashboard up in the next few days to keep this
> working a bit easier.
>
> On 2/23/06, William A. Hoffman <billlist at nycap.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think we should take this off the VTK list, and post a summary when we
> > have more answers.
> >
> > -Bill
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Randall Hand
> Visualization Scientist,
> ERDC-MSRC Vicksburg, MS
> Homepage: http://www.yeraze.com
>



--
Randall Hand
Visualization Scientist,
ERDC-MSRC Vicksburg, MS
Homepage: http://www.yeraze.com
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