[Paraview] Compiling Paraview 5.2 GCC 4.8 vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, line 641

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Nabil Ghodbane
<nabil.ghodbane at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK many thanks,; I am trying to use the Superbuild now.
> I can see that it is downloading Python 2.7.11. Is there a particular reason
> to use this version instead of the 2.7.12?

You can change the superbuild to use system Python i.e Python on your
system. See docs here
(https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild)
Setting CMake variable USE_SYSTEM_python to ON will use whatever is
instralled on your system.