On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:18:39 +0000 Alastair McKinstry wrote: > Hi, > > I contacted VisIt's upstream (via visit-users list) and found the same > thing; they are > correcting the build notes that claim Silo is needed. Great! :-) > > I hadn't tested it without Silo. I'm trying to build it now, but Visit > 1.12.0 needs > VTK 5.0.0c : I tested against vtk 5.2 which is in Debian, and they're > incompatible; Ouch! :-( This is unfortunate. > LLNL ship a VTK 5.0.0.c (with changes) tarball to build VisIt with; it > doesn't build > on Debian, so back to working on the necessary fixes for visit 1.12.0 > with Debian's VTK. Do you feel that many invasive changes are needed? > > (Some of these may be in the repo for visit ; they are currently > working on visit 2.0 > upstream, but I'm not sure it would be ready for Squeeze). Where's the repository for VisIt? I seem to be unable to find it by reading the official website. Which VCS do they use? > > I need to resign up to ITP visit. Well, if you do not have time, so be it: thanks anyway for trying to do it. Do you have a preliminary package somewhere? Do you feel it could be used as a base for further hacking? -- New location for my website! Update your bookmarks! http://www.inventati.org/frx ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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