No worries. Turns out it was badly configured environment variables. I think there was some recursion going on in there somewhere, and so it said "Configuring..." and never returned.
I got it sorted out for now. Thanks! Rob On Tue, 2017-06-27 at 17:08 +0000, Dreer, Jutta wrote: > Hi Rob, > > sorry for the late reply, other topics at work and at home were > consuming all of my time... > > As to the time cmake needs for configuration and for generating all > the makefiles: I did not mean hours, but rather minutes. Configure > took about 30 seconds and generate up to 90 seconds. But half a > minute can be a long time when you want to go along and test the > effects of your changes. > > As far as I remember there was some cmake-Variable where you could > specify if you want to download the most recent version of the > sources from a repository. I did not use that, and I would expect to > happen the download not when configuring but when calling "make", but > I installed 5.2 and this might have changed. Are you sure you are not > waiting for some download to take place? > > When calling make, Paraview 5.2 fetched some prerequisites from the > Paraview download page which took quite some time. > > Sorry, no more ideas. > > Regards > > Jutta > Von: Rob Groner <rob.gro...@psu.edu> > Gesendet: Freitag, 23. Juni 2017 17:06:34 > An: Dreer, Jutta > Cc: paraview@paraview.org > Betreff: Re: AW: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources > > Thank you for the help, Jutta. > > When you say "There are many of them, takes some time"...do you mean > hours? So far I've tried running ccmake and cmake-gui and executing > the configure, but once it starts doing that, I see absolutely no > indication that it is doing anything else. Nothing prints to the > screen, "top" doesn't show that cmake is using any CPU, and when I > use > cmake-gui, the little progress bar does not move. > > If it's that slow of a process, than I can just leave it for a day > and > come back, but it seems more likely that something is wrong. > > Rob > > > On Fri, 2017-06-23 at 10:17 +0000, Dreer, Jutta wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > > > I did not install 5.4 so far, only 5.2. But I have a hint for the > > last of your questions that might help: > > > > When calling ccmake, the cache is always empty in the beginning. > The > > first action you should initiate is to type "c" (abbreviation of > > "configure"). This will trigger ccmake to read all CMakeLists.txt > > files in the software tree (there are many of them, takes some > time). > > These describe the installation with all its variables. After that > > you should see all the variables. > > > > If your cache is still empty, maybe you did not specify the correct > > directory for ccmake. You should specify the top level directory > > which contains a CMakeLists.txt file. For Paraview 5.2 this was a > > directory Paraview-5.2.0 at the top level of the software tree > after > > unpacking. So maybe instead of ../src you need some > ../src/Paraview- > > 5.4....(whatever version number). > > > > As soon as you see the cache variables, you can change them, then > > again choose "configure", then "generate". After that you are > > prepared to initiate a run of "make" or whatever is necessary for > > further installation. > > > > Good Luck > > > > > > Best Regards > > > > Jutta Dreer > > Leibniz Supercomputing Centre Munich > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Boltzmannstr. 1 Phone: +49 89 35831 8741 > > D-85748 Garching Fax: +49 89 35831 9700 > > > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: ParaView [mailto:paraview-boun...@paraview.org] Im Auftrag von > > Rob Groner > > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Juni 2017 23:28 > > An: paraview@paraview.org > > Betreff: [Paraview] Trouble building the ParaView sources > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm trying to build the paraview sources. I downloaded the 5.4.0 > > sources, and I'm using Fedora 25 Workstation. > > > > I've read through the README.md that's in the root directory, and > > that leads me to Documentation/dev/build.md. > > > > Going through these steps: > > 1) I've verified cmake is on my system and in the PATH. > > 2) I've verified qt is installed, and is version 4.8.7 > > 3) Compiler and Build tool: > > > > Here's where issues begin. Since I'm using Fedora/yum, the > packages > > don't directly translate. > > > > I've verified or installed the following packages from the list: > > cmake > > git > > python-dev > > freeglut3-dev > > autoconf > > libtool > > bison > > flex > > ninja-build > > > > But I can't seem to find these: > > mesa-common-dev > > mesa-utils > > libhdf5-serial-dev > > > > (I did notice that some mesa packages were installed when freeglut > > was) > > > > I continued on to see how much farther I could get, and the next > step > > immediately stumped me: > > > > sudo python get-pip.py > > > > That returns a "no get-pip.py found" error. I've verified no get- > > pip.py file is in the ParaView sources (or anywhere else on the > > system), so I'm missing something here. > > > > I still continued on, and ran into another issue. The "Run CMake" > > step references a src and build directory. I understand that it is > > talking about the previous step using git to "Retrieve the source", > > but I downloaded them as a single .tar.gz file from the website > > instead. > > Looking at the git sources, they appear to be the same files and > > structure as what is in the .tar.gz, so I just put the extracted > > contents of the archive into a "src" dir, and create a "build" dir > at > > the same level. > > > > I then execute: ccmake ../src > > > > CMake does come up, but instead of seeing the 3 variables shown in > > the README, I see just "EMPTY CACHE". > > > > Any additional help or guidance would be appreciated. Thank you. > > > > Rob > > > > -- > > Rob Groner > > Software Engineer > > > > Institute for CyberScience > > The Pennsylvania State University > > 222E Computer Building > > University Park, PA 16802 > > Phone: 814.867.6074 > > _______________________________________________ > > Powered by www.kitware.com > > > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/ > op > > ensource/opensource.html > > > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http:// > > paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > > > Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView > > > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > > http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
