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 Yes, it looks like our configure test for VTK has become outdated.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 > -- *Miguel Angel Salazar de Troya* Graduate Research Assistant Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (217) 550-2360 [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Libmesh-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmesh-users
