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[Johannes Ring <johannr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Doug,

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Douglas Arnold <arnold@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I just built the dev version of FEniCS on
> Scientific Linux 6 (a variant of
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and so of CentOS 6) and
> I can report that this goes fine with the
> dorsal rhel6 platform file.
>
> There is one problem, in that the rhel6.platform
> file does not include viper, so there is no
> plotting.  I tried building with viper, but
> the resulting dolfin won't run.  I have
> written the fenics-viper list about this.
> If anyone knows how to make viper work with
> RHEL6, please let me know.

I don't know much about RHEL6, but maybe you could try to let Dorsal
build VTK for you? Simply add 'vtk' to the PACKAGES list in the
platform file. You will also need to set the following environment
variable afterwards in order for Viper to find it:

  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${INSTALL_PATH}/lib/vtk-5.4:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}

Johannes