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[Tim Tautges]

Mark, you can use 4.2 series by explicitly calling for gcc-4.2, and I 
think code compiled with that series will link with other code compiled 
with 4.3.

- tim

Mark Miller wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>    Ok, I've installed plugins for MOAB and GRUMMP implementations to
> the currently installed VisIt in /usr/local/itaps and confirmed they
> work on test data. The GRUMMP plugin works only on volume mesh files. I
> don't know why yet but it does not work on surface mesh (.smesh) or
> boundary (.bdry) files for GRUMMP. These plugins are named 'ITAPS_MOAB'
> and 'ITAPS_GRUMMP'.
> 
>    I tried building the FMDB installation I have installed locally at
> LLNL, fmdb_rev2272.tar.gz, on mesh.ep.wisc.edu. I ran into problems that
> I think are related to gcc-4.3 compatibility so I did not persue
> further. So, there is presently no FMDB plugin for VisIt.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:30 -0500, Tim Tautges wrote: 
>> Mark Miller wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I've been working on getting VisIt RE-installed with support for all
>>> three ITAPS implementations and have a hit a couple of snags...
>>> 2. -fPIC not used to produce the .a's for MOAB. I need to build
>>>    .so's for VisIt. To do this from .a's for MOAB, those .a's needed
>>>    to have been compiled with position independent code (-fPIC).
>>>    Alternatively, if .so's for MOAB are there, I can use those
>>>    directly.
>>>
>> Ok, I've modified the installed MOABser on mesh.ep to have both shared 
>> and static libs.  For parallel does it make sense to have shared libs? 
>> MOAB's make didn't work for parallel with shared libs, due to hdf5 
>> having unresolved externals.
>>
>> - tim
>>

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