[Paraview] Cmake complaint with git clone of ParaView

[David Doria]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 10:10 PM, William Sherman <shermanw at indiana.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Earlier this evening I did a "git clone" copy of ParaView from
> git://paraview.org/ParaView.git, and CMake is giving my the
> following errors:
>
>                 CMake Error at CMake/VTKModules.cmake:3 (include):
>                   include could not find load file:
>                     vtkDependentOption
>                 Call Stack (most recent call first):
>                   CMakeLists.txt:148 (include)
>
>
>                 CMake Error at CMake/VTKModules.cmake:361
> (VTK_DEPENDENT_OPTION):
>                   Unknown CMake command "VTK_DEPENDENT_OPTION".
>                 Call Stack (most recent call first):
>                   CMakeLists.txt:148 (include)
>
> I did a Google search, but no obvious answer appeared.
>
> Note: I also got this warning:
>
>                CMake Warning at CMakeLists.txt:120 (MESSAGE):
>                   Warning: You are using Qt 4.7.4.  Officially supported
> version is Qt 4.8
>
> Of course, that was after it complained about a lack of Qt, and
> mentioned version 4.7, so I spent an hour compiling Qt version 4.7.4
> (if only CMake had told me it wanted an even more recent version!)
>
>        Thanks for the help,
>        Bill

After git clone, you need a 'git submodule update --init', or you can
'git clone --recursive':

http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Git/Download

David