[vtkusers] VTK Nightly and Linux

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

hi,

>>>>> "KVV" == Kent Vander Velden <graphix at iastate.edu> writes:

    KVV>   Hi.  A couple of days ago I downloaded the then latest VTK
    KVV> Nightly bundle and tried to compile it on my Linux machine.
    KVV> I have tried several different configure sittings with the
    KVV> latest one being:

    KVV> # ./configure --with-tcl --with-shared --with-contrib
    KVV> --with-patented --with-opengl --with-x --with -shared

    KVV>   Mainly, I have tried combinations of --with-opengl,
    KVV> --with-mesa, and --with-x.  Either tcl/vtk will not link at
    KVV> the last step, my application will not link (messages about
    KVV> OSMesa* functions missing), or when tcl/vtk is run the
    KVV> following error message is shown before termination:

I routinely build vtk under linux with the foll. flags

./configure  --with-opengl --with-shared --with-tcl \
--with-tkwidget --with-python --with-contrib --with-patented

Ofcourse, I dont use X4.0.3 or the latest Mesa.  So I think that maybe
--with-x is unnecessary.  Also, IMHO it might be better _not_ to use
--with-mesa.  Could it be possible that the OpenGL headers are in a
non-standard place and that configure isnt able to detect them?

prabhu