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[Laurent Rineau <>]

Could you try to replace cmake/modules/FindTBB.cmake by the version that 
can be downloaded from the VTK Git repository?

  https://github.com/Kitware/VTK/blob/master/CMake/FindTBB.cmake

It is probably better maintained than our copy.


On 08/18/2017 04:16 PM, Michael Bieri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This question is related to an earlier question about enabling 
> parallel meshing.
>
> A summary of CMake variables related to Intel TBB is given here: 
> http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Manual/installation.html#title57
>
> However, I try to follow the instructions as careful as possible, but 
> CMake is not able to find TBB. I digged quite deep into the CMake 
> scripts, and I could not recognize a directory structure similar to 
> what CGAL's FindTBB.cmake seems to expect. For example, there's the 
> following snippet in that script:
>
> # GvdB: $ENV{TBB_ARCH_PLATFORM} is set by the build script 
> tbbvars[.bat|.sh|.csh]
> if (NOT $ENV{TBB_ARCH_PLATFORM} STREQUAL "")
>     set (_TBB_LIBRARY_DIR
>          ${_TBB_INSTALL_DIR}/lib/$ENV{TBB_ARCH_PLATFORM}
>          ${_TBB_INSTALL_DIR}/$ENV{TBB_ARCH_PLATFORM}/lib
>         )
> endif (NOT $ENV{TBB_ARCH_PLATFORM} STREQUAL "")
>
> However, in my installation I do not see a directory with name "lib" 
> at all. Given TBBROOT is the root of the uncompressed source file. 
> Then typing "make" will build into a directory "build", where I see 
> for example a directory 
> "linux_intel64_gcc_cc5.3.0_libc2.19_kernel3.12.61_debug/" inside which 
> I find the libtbb*.so.
>
> I wonder whether the directory structure changed in a new version of 
> TBB or wheter I'm doing something severely wrong.
>
> Best regards
> Michael