Ondrej, thank you for your investigations
I will give it a try this week or next week. Best regards C. On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Ondrej Certik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> the problem on sparc is this: >> >> (sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/paraview-3.2.2/obj-sparc-linux-gnu/bin$ ./H5detect >> /* Generated automatically by H5detect -- do not edit */ > [...] >> >> Bus error >> (sid)[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/paraview-3.2.2/obj-sparc-linux-gnu/bin$ >> >> >> >> So this should not happen. Now we need to debug this program to figure >> out what went wrong. > > Ok, here is how to reproduce it on sparc with upstream hdf5-1.8.1: > > $ wget ftp://ftp.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/current/src/hdf5-1.8.1.tar.gz > $ tar xzf hdf5-1.8.1.tar.gz > $ cd hdf5-1.8.1 > $ ./configure > $ make > [wait a while, then it compiles H5detect and calls it and it fails] > $ cd src > $ ./H5detect > [...] > Bus error > > So the problem is just getting hdf5 run on sparc. Looking at the > Debian package hdf5, it does't have any sparc specific patches. > > Looking at the sparc buildlog for the hdf5 package, the H5detect works > just fine in it (search for it): > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=hdf5;ver=1.6.6-4;arch=sparc;stamp=1207153381 > > So we just need to use this (older) hdf5 in Debian from paraview and > it would solve all problems, because we will leave the portability of > hdf5 to the hdf5 guys. :) > > Any volunteers to try to compile paraview with Debian hdf5, instead of > the one in Utilities/hdf5? > > That would help a lot, since I am very busy with my thesis now. > > Thanks, > Ondrej > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]