[Pkg-scicomp-devel] paraview: /usr/lib/libmpi.so not found

[Ondrej Certik]

Hi Jo (sorry, no fancy accents:),

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Jö Fahlke <jorrit at jorrit.de> wrote:
> When trying to build paraview, I get the following error:
>
>  ======================================================================
>  [ 22%] Building CXX object VTK/Parallel/CMakeFiles/vtkParallel.dir/vtkXMLPMultiGroupDataWriter.o
>  [ 22%] Building CXX object VTK/Parallel/CMakeFiles/vtkParallel.dir/vtkExodusIIWriter.o
>  [ 22%] Building CXX object VTK/Parallel/CMakeFiles/vtkParallel.dir/vtkMPICommunicator.o
>  [ 22%] Building CXX object VTK/Parallel/CMakeFiles/vtkParallel.dir/vtkMPIController.o
>  [ 22%] Building CXX object VTK/Parallel/CMakeFiles/vtkParallel.dir/vtkMPIGroup.o
>  [ 22%] Building CXX object VTK/Parallel/CMakeFiles/vtkParallel.dir/vtkParallelInstantiator.o
>  make[3]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/libmpi.so', needed by `bin/libvtkParallel.so.pv3.2'.  Stop.
>  make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/joe/src/paraview/debian-svn/obj-i486-linux-gnu'
>  make[2]: *** [VTK/Parallel/CMakeFiles/vtkParallel.dir/all] Error 2
>  make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/joe/src/paraview/debian-svn/obj-i486-linux-gnu'
>  make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
>  make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/joe/src/paraview/debian-svn/obj-i486-linux-gnu'
>  make: *** [debian/stamp-makefile-build] Error 2
>  dpkg-buildpackage: failure: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
>  joe at paranoia:~/src/paraview/debian-svn$
>  ======================================================================
>
>  I used paraview 3.2.1 and Debian packaging SVN r2186.  My system is running
>  testing.

Yes, that was a known problem with openmpi:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=464795

Either upgrade the package from unstable, or build paraview in
pbuilder. I recommend the latter.

Thanks for trying it out and please keep reporting bugs.

Ondrej