[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#494031: Bug#494031: Bug#494031: Bug#494031: paraview_3.2.3-2(sparc/unstable): FTBFS on sparc, bus error

[Christophe Prud'homme]

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 <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Ondrej Certik <ondrej at certik.cz> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> the problem on sparc is this:
>>
>> (sid)ondrej at titan:~/paraview-3.2.2/obj-sparc-linux-gnu/bin$ ./H5detect
>> /* Generated automatically by H5detect -- do not edit */
> [...]
>>
>> Bus error
>> (sid)ondrej at titan:~/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
>