[vtk-developers] VTK 4.2.4 and VTK 5

William A. Hoffman billlist at nycap.rr.com
Mon Nov 17 08:17:24 EST 2003


Can you explain the RPATH problem with python?
I may be wrong but I think that if you turned this
off by default, there would be more complaints about
VTK not working, and people having to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
That was the way it was in the past before we had rpath.

-Bill



>As a related (but off topic) point I think it makes sense to set
>CMAKE_SKIP_RPATH to ON by default.  I've created a FAQ entry and
>answered my fair share of the same question over and over again.  Too
>many Python users are bitten by this.  Unless someone either offers
>their time to handle all these requests or comes up with a better way
>to solve the problem, I don't think I'm willing to accept it being
>OFF.
>
>prabhu
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