[vtkusers] Building Paraview on AIX

[Rich Cook]

Hello,
Help!  I'm stuck!

In 2006 I was able through a process of blood sweat and tears, with  
much help from the kind people at Kitware, to get a build of Paraview  
working on our "big iron" AIX machine (IBM PPC AIX 5).  I'm taking  
another whack at it with a newer version and am hitting a new set of  
difficulties.

Building things on AIX is the biggest pain on the planet, and  
Paraview is definitely no exception.  Even CMake is weird on AIX,  
which I find to be ironic considering what CMake is supposed to be  
about.  :-)  Luckily I know some of AIX's evil ways, and I'm on the job.

In the CMake tool, I set all the CFLAGS to -qlanglvl=extended - 
qcpluscmt.  This makes up for the anal retentiveness of xlC and its  
insistence on strict C comments, intentional filtering of modern C  
style, etc.

I set the ldflags to -brtl  -bnortllib -bautoexp -bM:SRE.  I don't  
even know why I do this any more, but it seems to be a good thing  
with xlC.  Check the man pages if you are curious.

Even with this setup, I got a cryptic error about not being able to  
find poe_remote_main, so I then edited CMake/ParaViewCommon.cmake  
line 247 to basically disable it, changing it from :

  SET(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} - 
binitfini:poe_remote_main")

to

  SET(xxCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS} - 
xxbinitfini:poe_remote_main")

Oh, joy!  I actually got a long way into it this way, but alas, make  
ultimately fails here:

	cd /usr/global/tools/Kitware/Paraview/3.4.0/aix_5_64_fed/VTK/ 
GUISupport/Qt/Testing/Cxx && /usr/global/tools/Kitware/CMake/2.6.2/ 
aix_5_64_fed/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script CMakeFiles/ 
QVTKCxxTests.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/usr/local/bin/xlC   -qlanglvl=extended -qcpluscmt  -qrtti=all    - 
brtl  -bnortllib -bautoexp -bM:SRE  -bhalt:5 CMakeFiles/ 
QVTKCxxTests.dir/QVTKCxxTests.o CMakeFiles/QVTKCxxTests.dir/ 
TestQtInitialization.o CMakeFiles/QVTKCxxTests.dir/ 
TestQtSQLDatabase.o CMakeFiles/QVTKCxxTests.dir/ 
TestQtTableModelAdapter.o CMakeFiles/QVTKCxxTests.dir/ 
TestQtTreeModelAdapter.o  -o ../../../../../bin/QVTKCxxTests -Wl,- 
brtl,-bnoipath,-bexpall ../../../../../bin/libQVTK.a /usr/mic/dvsviz/ 
Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/aix_5_64_fed/lib/libQtGui.a /lib/libpng.a /lib/ 
libXi.a /lib/libfreetype.a /lib/libfontconfig.a /lib/libm.a /usr/mic/ 
dvsviz/Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/aix_5_64_fed/lib/libQtSql.a /usr/mic/dvsviz/ 
Trolltech/Qt-4.4.3/aix_5_64_fed/lib/libQtCore.a /lib/libz.a /lib/ 
librt.a -lpthreads -ldl ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkViews.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkInfovis.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkWidgets.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkHybrid.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkParallel.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkRendering.a ../../../../../ 
bin/libvtkGraphics.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkverdict.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkImaging.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkftgl.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkfreetype.a /lib/libGL.a /lib/ 
libXt.a /lib/libSM.a /lib/libICE.a /lib/libXext.a /lib/ 
libX11.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkIO.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkFiltering.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkCommon.a - 
lm ../../../../../bin/libvtkDICOMParser.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkmetaio.a ../../../../../bin/libvtksys.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtksqlite.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkpng.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtktiff.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkjpeg.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkexpat.a ../../../../../bin/libvtkexoIIc.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkNetCDF.a ../../../../../bin/libvtklibxml2.a ../../../../../bin/ 
libvtkzlib.a -ldl -lhistory -lreadline -lpthread -lld -lm -Wl,- 
blibpath:/usr/lib:/lib
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol:  
vtkRenderWindowInteractor::PrintSelf 
(std::basic_ostream<char,std::char_traits<char> >&,vtkIndent)
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: vtkObjectBase::PrintHeader 
(std::basic_ostream<char,std::char_traits<char> >&,vtkIndent)
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: vtkObjectBase::PrintTrailer 
(std::basic_ostream<char,std::char_traits<char> >&,vtkIndent)
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol:  
vtkRenderWindowInteractor::CollectRevisions 
(std::basic_ostream<char,std::char_traits<char> >&)
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more  
information.
make: The error code from the last command is 8.


Stop.
make: The error code from the last command is 2.


Stop.
make: The error code from the last command is 2.


Stop.


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✐Richard Cook
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