[vtkusers] New vtk debs based on CVS source: some comments.

[David Gobbi]

Hi Dan,

It would be wonderful if the .spec file was in the vtk CVS, and
the nightly RPM builds copied it from there.  

Me & Prabhu would also like to change the default install prefix
to /usr instead of /usr/local if nobody has objections.  From my
perspective, I like to reserve /usr/local for user-managed
packages (e.g. to make it easy to copy /usr/local from one
machine to another, or to have it a shared network directory).
Nearly all RPMs, including third-party RPMs, install to /usr.

 - David

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  David Gobbi, MSc                    dgobbi at irus.rri.on.ca
  Advanced Imaging Research Group
  Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario
 
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Daniel J. Blezek, Ph.D. wrote:

> Dave, Prabhu, et. al.,
> 
> > I wish you were still maintaining the RPMs!  Or even better, if you
> > could incorporate this functionality into the Makefile.
> 
>   Actually, I'm still maintaining the RPMs.  I've gotten so little
> feedback from the VTK community on the efficacy of them, that it isn't a
> surprise to me that they don't work quite as people expect.  Given the
> open source nature of VTK, I'm happy to incorporate changes to the RPM
> build process, and, if desired, I could set up a system to produce Debian
> packages as well.
> 
>   I did spend some time at the beginning of the year getting the VTK
> install process in a bit better shape to get the RPMS going, but since no
> one around here uses the Java and Python bindings, their install is
> probably broken.  Again, I'm happy to help out.
> 
> I do have a good handle on the install process for VTK, and user.make.  At
> one point I tried to move the functionality of user.make into the
> configure.in file, to reduce the confusion caused by user.make, and to
> make the "./configure; make install" work as expected, but it broke our
> testing builds, and I backed it out without resolving the issue.  Perhaps
> with some assistance from the Python/Java users, we can get this into
> shape...
> 
> -dan
> 
> P.S.  Thanks Prabhu for getting the RPM's started, and to Dave for the
> updated spec file.