[Paraview] Installation error "MPIEXEC was empty"

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

You need to point the MPIEXEC variable to the mpiexec or mpirun
executables. If they are not present/don't work, you are better off
not building ParaView with MPI support enabled.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:44 AM, Pradeep Jha
<pradeep at ccs.engg.nagoya-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to install ParaView 3,98 rom source on a Linux machine. I dont
> have the root passwords. I have locally installed the cmake and qt 4.8.4.
>
> I want to install Python with MPI support.
>
> After pulling the source code using git, when I am running the ccmake
> command, it is giving me the following error during configuration:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  CMake Error at VTK/Parallel/MPI/CMakeLists.txt:37 (message):
>    MPIEXEC was empty.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I dont know if the following information is useful:
> I do have mpi installed on this system as the mpi compilers for fortran and
> C are available. But I dont have the mpirun or mpiexec command working.
>
> Any ideas what is going wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Pradeep
>
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