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

[David Gobbi]

On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks.  I looked through all the other cmake "FindXXX" out of
paranoia, and it looks like FindPythonLibs.cmake is the only one that
is afflicted by this problem.

   David