[vtk-developers] Beta Release

[Maitland Bottoms]

I almost forgot this issue:

 - using VTK_USE_SYSTEM_EXPAT:BOOL=ON had problems

The Debian packages take advantage of the other VTK_USE_SYSTEM_*
settings, but something seems amiss with the expat stuff. The problem
was due to VTK expat stuff being put in the include path via cmake.
It's not immediately obvious to me how to fix this, but probably
someone with more cmake experience will think it's easy.

Debian has a /usr/include/expat.h file and
/usr/lib/libexpat.so available.

Also, Debian has the FreeType 2 font engine in its libfreetype*
packages. Perhaps a VTK_USE_SYSTEM_FREETYPE could be added?

-Maitland

Note the Depends: line handles jpeg, png, tiff and zlib...

$ dpkg --status vtk-tcl
Package: vtk-tcl
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: interpreters
Installed-Size: 3588
Maintainer: A. Maitland Bottoms <bottoms at debian.org>
Source: vtk
Version: 4.1.20030216-2
Replaces: vtk
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libgcc1 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre1), libjpeg62, libpng12-0, libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.2.3-0pre1), libtiff3g, libvtk4, tcl8.4 (>= 8.4.1), tk8.4 (>= 8.4.1), xlibmesa3-gl | libgl1, xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Suggests: vtk-examples, vtk-doc
Description: Tcl bindings for VTK
 This provides the shared libraries and executable that enable one to use
 VTK from Tcl/Tk scripts.  You will need Tcl/Tk and vtk installed to use
 this.