[vtk-developers] build errors with libvtkCommon.so.4.5

[Brad King]

tom fogal wrote:
>  <430640D4.4070000 at kitware.com>Brad King writes:
>>You need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the vtk-build/bin directory 
>>if VTK_USE_RPATH is OFF.
> 
> I assume you mean "ON" here, because I've just installed (see below)
> without setting this environment variable.

I mean OFF.  Certain build options (like Python wrapping) run some of 
the generated VTK executables out of the build tree during the build 
process.  These will not be able to run unless they can find their 
shared libraries.  Without an rpath this will not work without setting 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  You also need to set it to run any of the examples or 
tests from the build tree.

> I didn't explain this properly; the reason I wrote the original mail
> was because the following did not work:
> 
> $ mkdir cvs_build_vtk
> $ cd cvs_build_vtk
> $ ccmake ../VTK
>   # setup; note VTK_USE_RPATH is ON
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
>   # bang head against wall for being dumb about VTK_USE_RPATH
> $ ccmake ../VTK  
>   # set VTK_USE_RPATH to OFF
> $ rm bin/*
> $ make
> $ sudo make install
> 
> The second 'sudo make install' still failed with the same error.

I just tried this example from scratch and the second install works.  A 
change I made last week might have affected it though so please make 
sure it works if you update to the latest CVS version.

-Brad