Hello Dennis, all,
There's one more thing... all the thorns compiled with either OpenMPI or MPICH2, but the linker fails at the very end with many undefined references to functions (some of them HDF5)... maybe there are options to link with external libraries that I haven't set? No doubt an experienced user could spot the root of the problem more easily than I.
To compile I did a: su -c 'apt-get install libatlas-dev libatlas-base-dev' then modified simfactory/mdb/machines/etk-os.etk.org.ini to match the attached file (essentially switching from generic.cfg to debian-lenny-gcc.cfg). Then did a simfactory/bin/sim build --clean --reconfig --thornlist=thornlists/einsteintoolkit.th
After some hours of compilation it linked fine.
I also found it helpful to install network-manager su -c 'apt-get install network-manager' to bring the network online.
I also installed VisIt (as etk-user) via:
cd $HOME/Downloads wget http://portal.nersc.gov/svn/visit/trunk/releases/2.4.2/visit2_4_2.linux-rhel... tar xf visit2_4_2.linux-rhel5.tar.gz -C $HOME echo 'PATH=$PATH:$HOME/visit2_4_2.linux-intel/bin' >~/.bashrc
as well as the VisIt Carpet reader:
cd $HOME/Downloads su -c 'apt-get install cmake' svn co https://svn.cactuscode.org/VizTools/CarpetHDF5/trunk/ CarpetHDF5 ./install # in the CMake tab enter into the CXXFLAGS field: -I/home/etk-user/visit2_4_2.linux-intel/2.4.2/linux-intel/include/hdf5/include # and into the LDFLAGS field -L/home/etk-user/visit2_4_2.linux-intel/2.4.2/linux-intel/lib # the save and close the window it should compile and create files in $HOME/.visit (which are the only required ones, the source can be deleted afterwards).
You probably do not want to turn on 3d acceleration if you use an Intel based graphics card since (at least for me) the VisIt viewer dies uppon startup when one tries to use 3D acceleration with Intel graphics.
Yours, Roland