[Paraview] Compilation error

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Ken Teague <kteague at pobox.com> wrote:
> I'm finally making some progress.  I got the necessary mesa libraries.  Now
> I get this error during configure:
>
>  It is impossible to order the linker search path in such a way that
> libraries specified as full paths will be picked by the
>  linker.
>  Directories and libraries involved are:
>  Directory: /usr/lib64 contains:
>  Library: /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.a
>  Library: /usr/local/lib/libavformat.a
>  Library: /usr/local/lib/libavutil.a
>
>  Directory: /usr/local/lib contains:
>  Library: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so
>  Library: /usr/lib64/libQtGui.so
>
>
>
>
>  It is impossible to order the linker search path in such a way that
> libraries specified as full paths will be picked by the
>  linker.
>  Directories and libraries involved are:
>  Directory: /usr/lib64 contains:
>  Library: /usr/local/lib/libavcodec.a
>  Library: /usr/local/lib/libavformat.a
>  Library: /usr/local/lib/libavutil.a
>
>  Directory: /usr/local/lib contains:
>  Library: /usr/lib64/libQtCore.so
>  Library: /usr/lib64/libQtGui.so
>  Library: /usr/lib64/libQtNetwork.so
>  Library: /usr/lib64/libQtUiTools.a
>  Library: /usr/lib64/libQtXml.so
>
> The reason I have them under /usr/local is because the Qt libraries were too
> old for this version of ParaView I'm trying to compile ffmpeg didn't have
> the include files available in my Debian distribution.  How do I tell it to
> use the stuff under /usr/local?  Many thanks.
>
> - Ken
>
> On Wed Jul 9 10:32 , "Berk Geveci" sent:
>
> It sounds like you have the VTK_OPENGL_HAS_OSMESA option turned on. If
> this is intentional, you should set OSMESA_LIBRARY to the right
> library. I don't know what the library is called in debian. If this is
> not intentional, make sure to turn that option off.

You can look at the official debian package in unstable and look into
debian/rules and debian/patches to see how to make it compile and work
in sid.

Ondrej