When vtk-5.2.0-r1 is emerged with USE="mpi", it complains that MPI library is not present, even though mpich2-1.0.8 is installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge mpich2 2. set USE="mpi" 3. emerge vtk Actual Results: Configure bails out complaining that MPI library could not be found. Expected Results: Clean compilation.
Please post your "emerge --info" and attach the config.log file of the failed emerge to this bug.
Created attachment 186613 [details] vtk-5.2.0-r1/temp/build.log
Created attachment 186614 [details] emerge --info
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The most recent vtk in portage (5.4.2) should compile fine against openmpi. If you continue to have problems please re-open and post your particular mpi implementation. Thanks, Markus
(In reply to comment #6) I switched to OpenMPI from MPICH2, everything works fine now.