On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Kirk, Benjamin (JSC-EG311)
<benjamin.kir...@nasa.gov> wrote:
> On Jan 22, 2013, at 1:00 PM, John Peterson <peter...@cfdlab.ae.utexas.edu> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Derek Gaston <fried...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Have you guys tried to do a static build of libMesh on Linux and "make
>>> install" it somewhere and then try to build a libMesh based application
>>> against that?
>>>
>>> It is not working for us... because of missing tecplot symbols (like
>>> "tecini").  It looks like the executables in libMesh (like meshplot, etc.)
>>> have this on their link line (I'm building in a build directory underneath
>>> the libMesh directory):
>>>
>>> ../contrib/tecplot/lib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/tecio.a
>>>
>>> However, that tecio.a file doesn't get installed into the prefix directory
>>> when you do "make install"... so there is no way for a libMesh based
>>> application to do something similar.
>>>
>>> I was kind of thinking that that tecio.a would have been linked into the
>>> actual libMesh static library... then there would be no problems...
>>>
>>> What should we do about this?
>>
>> Just to add a bit more detail to this:  if you configure libmesh with
>> --enable-static --enable-shared, and make install then we get the
>> following when running 'nm' on the static library.
>>
>> nm lib/libmesh_opt.a | grep tecini
>> nm: tecio.a: File format not recognized
>> nm: lt1-tecio.a: File format not recognized
>>                U tecini
>>
>> It seems to me that tecplot is unique in that it's a binary blob we
>> download from the Tecplot website?
>
> OK, I'll see what I can do about this.
>
> In the mean time, we've started distributing the tecio *source* as well, but 
> that is not default yet because I haven't verified it with all compilers…
>
> But can you try instead
>
> $ ./configure <whatever else> --disable-tecplot --enable-tecio
>
> This will turn off the binary blob nonsense and compile the requisite symbols 
> from source, getting them into the libMesh libraries proper.

Ah, we had tried --disable-tecio --enable-tecplot to no avail, but not
this particular permutation.

--
John

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