[vtk-developers] Packaging VTK 4.0 for linux (was Python packages: status, suggestions.)

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "DJB" == "Blezek, Daniel J (CRD)" <blezek at crd.ge.com> writes:

    DJB> Prabhu & David, Part of the problem is that CMake hasn't been
    DJB> tweaked enough to make an RPM easy to install.  Python might
    DJB> be the toughest.  For the moment, it's very straightforward
    DJB> to make your environment point to vtk inside the build tree,
    DJB> suggesting that a .tgz file would be good to do.  Putting a
    DJB> VTKEnvironment.csh file inside that could be sourced would
    DJB> really help people out.  This is what I do (for Tcl, Python,
    DJB> but not java{which is similar}):

Indeed, this is pretty much what I do too.  I use bash and simply
source the following:

VTKPATH=<path_to>/cvs/VTK
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$VTKPATH/lib
export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$VTKPATH/Wrapping/Python:$VTKPATH/lib

Hmm, maybe I'll add a contrib section in my tarball that will setup
things so that different shells can be used.

prabhu