[Paraview] Compilation failure with the latest git master

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.certik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a working version using git
> f7aac037722d9d13b75d9fdb15a1053c0874c6c6. I kept the same versions of
> all the external dependencies (boost, png, qt, zlib, bzip2, gdal,
> hdf5, mpi, netcdf4, netcdf4cpp, freetype, python, numpy, matplotlib,
> libxml2, mesa), but upgraded to the latest git master of ParaView (and
> updated submodules): 7e714de07e6a3c0e376ed634cf83be44be13d733.
>
> Now paraview fails to build with:
>
> [paraview] /local/certik/tmp/paraview-xx3asav3as7r-1/_build/Wrapping/ClientServer/vtkGDALClientServer.cxx:13:41:
> error: invalid conversion from 'vtkObject*' to 'vtkGDAL*'
> [-fpermissive]
> [paraview]    vtkGDAL *op = vtkGDAL::SafeDownCast(ob);
> [paraview]                                          ^
>
>
> Here is a full build log:
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/certik/05d98c5b60664e028eee/raw/gistfile1.txt
>
> Any ideas what could be causing it?

I used git bisect and it said:

25f505c5dc55c9f38df2fbb374e1a8ecdc2479fd is the first bad commit
commit 25f505c5dc55c9f38df2fbb374e1a8ecdc2479fd
Author: Shawn Waldon <shawn.waldon at kitware.com>
Date:   Fri Feb 13 16:24:05 2015 -0500

    Update VTK to get vtkPointGaussianMapper bugfix

    Change-Id: I49f288c2a2f8bd9282facb473a26557a4a771a1c

This commit only updates the VTK submodule:

diff --git a/VTK b/VTK
index 96c61c1..8bb1cd3 160000
--- a/VTK
+++ b/VTK
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 96c61c1cd52e3c4e2e38414b7a703999e4e6fc3e
+Subproject commit 8bb1cd3a0799ba9d663547c9c1427cb5a230d3cd


So it looks like a bug in VTK. Any ideas how to fix it? Perhaps VTK
requires more recent GDAL? I use the one from
http://vtk.org/files/support/gdal_5b8309b.tar.gz.

Ondrej