I'll install the 5.x version since I am starting with it. Thanks.

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:00 PM, John Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Miguel Angel Salazar de Troya <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The problem was that the environment variable PETS_ARCH was not correctly
>> set. I could compile and run all the tests in make check. Sorry for all the
>> problems.
>>
>> Now I would like to install it with VTK. I have version 6.1 installed in
>> my computer. I have the options
>> --enable-vtk --with-vtk-include=/usr/local/include/vtk-6.1'
>> '--with-vtk-lib=/usr/local/lib/ in the configure command line. The
>> directory /usr/local/lib is where the vtk libraries are. However, it looks
>> like Libmesh is asking me for different library names. For example, it
>> cannot find -lvtkIO, but in that directory I have libraries such as:
>> libvtkIOAMR-6.1.so, libvtkIOEnSight-6.1.so, and many more with same
>> initial letters libvtkIO*. Is it because of the VTK version? Similar issues
>> happen with the other vtk libraries that cannot find.
>>
>
>
> Yes, it looks like our configure test for VTK has become outdated.  It
> works with 5.x versions but has never been tested with version 6.x
>
> The quickest fix that you can do yourself is to install a 5.x version of
> VTK and use that.
>
> I'm not really sure what the right fix for the library is.  We need to
> know how to link against VTK, so in the absence of a "vtk-config" type
> script, we just guessed that it was "-L$VTK_LIB -lvtkIO -lvtkCommon
> -lvtkFiltering" in the past, that obviously no longer works.  We should
> probably look for an existing autoconf solution on the web, or I think some
> Kitware guys follow libmesh on github (@robertmaynard?), maybe they can
> comment.
>
> --
> John
>



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Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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