[vtk-developers] vtkCommonCorePython static build failure

[David Lonie]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:26 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:23 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 10:01 AM, David Gobbi <david.gobbi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 7:57 AM, David Lonie <david.lonie at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> Ah, ok -- nevermind then :-)
>>>
>>> It never hurts to try, though... you can add "-fPIC" to your CXXFLAGS and
>>> rebuild VTK, and then if the modules are loaded into python in the right order
>>> it just might work... I think that vtk-python still loads its modules with
>>> RTLD_GLOBAL so it might be able to resolve symbols directly between the
>>> python modules instead of requiring shared libraries.
>>
>> Success! Adding -fPIC to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS is all that was needed
>> for it to build.
>
> Yes, it will build, but I'm curious about whether you can "import vtk"
> from python without it complaining about missing symbols.  Can you
> try, just to satisfy my curiosity?

It tries, but segfaults quickly.

Dave