VisIt-3.4.1 fails to build with the build_visit script on various systems

[jrobcary]

Describe the bug

VisIt-3.4.1 fails to build with the build_visit script on various systems

Case 1: perlmutter @ nersc
Log: build_visit_log.perlmutter.gz

/pscratch/sd/c/cary/visitall/bvm/visit-3.4.1/visit3.4.1/src/tools/dev/scripts/build_visit --qt6 --llvm --mesagl --hdf5 --makeflags -j12 --thirdparty-path /global/cfs/cdirs/txsupp/cary/perlmutter/software-gcc1230/visit-3.4.1 --prefix /global/cfs/cdirs/txsupp/cary/perlmutter/software-gcc1230/visit-3.4.1-bvm
Fails to configure llvm
checking for glproto >= 1.4.14... no
configure: error: Package requirements (glproto >= 1.4.14) were not met:

No package 'glproto' found

Ignore below for now. Trying to duplicate.
Case 2: Sonoma-14.5,xcode-15.4
Log: build_visit_log-son14.5,xc15.4.gz
Fails to build HDF5 (1.8.14)
Log is build_visit_log-son14.5,xc15.4.gz

../../test/tmisc.c:2713:63: error: incompatible pointer to integer conversion initializing 'const char' with an expression of type 'void *' [-Wint-conversion]
                        {"1234567", "1234567\0", "12345678", {NULL}};
                                                              ^~~~
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/lib/clang/15.0.0/include/stddef.h:89:16: note: expanded from macro 'NULL'
#  define NULL ((void*)0)
               ^~~~~~~~~~
../../test/tmisc.c:2792:63: error: incompatible pointer to integer conversion initializing 'const char' with an expression of type 'void *' [-Wint-conversion]
                        {"1234567", "1234567\0", "12345678", {NULL}};

LOGS
build_visit_log-son14.5,xc15.4.gz
build_visit_log.perlmutter.gz

[jrobcary]

Changing name, as now working on on Mac OS X.

I see at https://visit-dav.github.io/visit-website/index.html: Supported on many LCFs, which lists NERSC, and I see https://docs.nersc.gov/applications/visit/. However, I still need to know how to build it, as we make some modifications to VisIt to use it within our software package.

[cyrush]

Thanks @jrobcary. Perlmutter lacks some of the system X11 headers and libs need to build Visit.

We have used spack to build a larger stack (including x11) on systems like this.

It's not for the faint of heart, if you have active support at NERSC, perhaps we could ask them to install these system headers?

[brugger1]

@jrobcary, Gunther had some success building on Perlmutter. His experience is documented in #19651.