[vtk-developers] FindPythonLibs.cmake removal and OS X woes

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Friday 18 December 2009 07:58:51 David Gobbi wrote:
> The FindPythonLibs.cmake that comes with cmake has some obnoxious code
> that is breaking my build.
> 
> To build against a particular version of the python framework, I use
> the following:
> PYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Version
> s/2.5/Python
> 
> The FindPython module sees this, says "aha! you are using a
> framework!" and it resets the variable to this:
> PYTHON_LIBRARY:FILEPATH=-framework Python
> 
> This is a problem that was fixed in VTK/CMake/FindPythonLibs.cmake a
> long time ago, but it seems that the fix was never propagated back to
> CMake.  Until it is, can VTK go back to its old FindPythonLibs?
> 
I didn't realize that changes like this had not been merged into CMake, and 
was working on reducing code duplication. The new CMake comes with a fix for 
finding the shared library on some Linux distributions, I will merge these 
changes into the VTK version of the file and add it back to VTK.

I will also look at integrating the VTK changes into the CMake module for 
2.8.1 so that others can benefit from the fix.

Marcus
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