superbuild for 5.7.0 fails on ARM system - Could not configure LLVM for the target system processor aarch64

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I’m trying to build 5.7.0 using the superbuild on an ARM-based aws graviton system, but get the following errors:

cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/data/paraview/$pvVer -D mesa_USE_SWR=OFF -D ENABLE_llvm=ON -D ENABLE_pythondateutil=ON -D ENABLE_pythonsix=OFF -D ENABLE_numpy=OFF -D ENABLE_paraview=ON -D ENABLE_qt5=OFF -D ENABLE_python3=ON -D ENABLE_python=OFF -D ENABLE_osmesa=ON -D ENABLE_mpi=ON -D USE_SYSTEM_python3=ON -D USE_SYSTEM_mpi=ON ./paraview-superbuild/

– Determined source version for paraview: 5.7.0
CMake Error at projects/unix/llvm.cmake:20 (message):
Could not configure LLVM for the target system processor ‘aarch64’.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildMacros.cmake:735 (include)
superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:145 (_superbuild_discover_projects)

– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Really not expert enough to find the issue, but I am able for example to build fully with 5.9.0. Anyone have suggestions?

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In any case, disable mesa and llvm in your superbuild to work around this issue.

FYI @ben.boeckel

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That’s interesting, because a spack install of 5.7.0 works well on arm, including with mesa/llvm! I’m trying to reproduce the install via the superbuild which fails.

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@danlipsa

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The 5.7.0 version of ParaView’s superbuild probably has an LLVM that is too old to support aarch64. Spack is likely using a newer LLVM.

For the record, 5.7.0 contains LLVM 7. I don’t know if we pass the right arguments to it for aarch64.

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Turned out to be a simple issue, which I reported. Linking here in case someone else with this issue comes across this post.

https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/issues/180#note_914587

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There has been a lot of work on Superbuild and ParaView from 5.7.0 to 5.9.0 for ARM processors/OS’s. Maybe try 5.9.0?

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