[Paraview] compiling without VTK

[John Biddiscombe]

David
> Is there anyway to build paraview using an existing VTK installation
> instead of having to have another copy of VTK inside paraview?
>   

Possible to do, but your life is too short to make it worthwhile. 
Instead, Build paraview as per usual, and stop using vtk on its own!
Simply point your projects to
/my/path/to/paraview/build/VTK
and they will pick up the VTK config from there.

JB