[Paraview] paraview 3.0.1 build on MacOS X is brittle

clinton at elemtech.com clinton at elemtech.com
Tue Jun 19 12:22:47 EDT 2007


Jack,

I'm guessing it is almost as simple as replacing most IF(APPLE) to 
IF(Q_WS_MAC) in the CMakeLists.txt files.

Is that something you can try out?

Clint

On Tuesday 19 June 2007 9:42:24 am Jack Howarth wrote:
> Mike,
>    I'm not saying that you have to take the MacOS X build
> back to X11. Just make the build process flexible enough
> that if Carbon QT isn't being used, the MacOS X build
> defaults back to a linux-like X11 build. It shouldn't
> be rocket science to do that.
>                   Jack
>
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 11:25:49AM -0400, Mike Jackson wrote:
> > I still need a _good_ reason for building against X11. Just because it
> > _can_ be done does not mean it _should_ be done. OS X users _expect_ a
> > proper OS X application bundle to use. We (OS X Users) have been
> > screaming at the ParaView folks for years to do this so we did not
> > have to rely on X11 to run ParaView. Now that we have it you want to
> > take us back to X11? I don't think so. I would rather see Kitware's
> > resources put to other tasks than to back port to X11.
>
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