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[Douglas Arnold <arnold@xxxxxxx>]

Dear Johannes:

Thanks for this reply.  I tried adding vtk to the platform file right after cmake
and ran into a problem I do not understand.  After dorsal builds cmake, then
it downloads vtk-5.6.1 and unpacks it, but as soon as it starts to build vtk,
it pops up a cmake screen asking me to configure it, which I don't know how to
do.  (The screen looks like this:

>                                                      Page 0 of 1
>  EMPTY CACHE
>
> EMPTY CACHE:
> Press [enter] to edit option                                CMake Version 2.6 - patch 4
> Press [c] to configure
> Press [h] for help         Press [q] to quit without generating
> Press [t] to toggle advanced mode (Currently Off)

Any suggestions?

On 08/05/2011 03:14 AM, Johannes Ring wrote:
> 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