[Paraview] Python builds from source

[Andy Bauer]

On my Ubuntu machine I'm using the default installed python which is version
2.6.6.  I think 2.6 is sufficient.  I don't have any extra flags beyond
turning on PARAVIEW_ENABLE_PYTHON.

Andy

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Rakesh Hammond <
rakesh.hammond at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am having to build Python to link against Paraview.  I am on Linux system
> and have a number of different OS (by this I mean different versions of
> linux kernels) where the clients will be running.
>
> They all come with their own built versions of python(2.5/2.6/2.7)
> depending on how up-to-date a particular machine is.  This is causing me
> lots of pain as the paraview I build on machine (using my /usr/lib/python)
> is different to what may be on other clients :(
>
> I figured it may be best to build my own version of python from source and
> point my cmake entries to that directory.  The questions are as follows
>
> 1)Is python 2.6 is sufficient for Paraview-3.10.1?
>
> 2)Do I need to turn on any specific flags when building?
>
> 3)Do I need any other libraries (like the imaging library) for Paraview?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Rakesh.
>
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