[vtkusers] Re: vtk3.2 Beta configure problems and compilitation warnings

[Julia Schnabel]

Hi, regarding some questions I had earlier on installing the new release
properly, I'm still not much wiser. This is how far I've got (see below points
for more detail):

1) solved, using the new patch as suggested by Mumit Khan :-)

2) Are these warnings normal, or could they be fixed?
/projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkConfigure.h:16: warning:
`_HP_NO_FAST_MACROS' redefined

3) I have been using the newest gnu gmake, as suggested by Berk Geveci, but
still that cross-configure didn't work:
gmake[1]: ../targets: Command not found
gmake[1]: *** [targets.make] Error 127
gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/projects/local/vtk/vtk_test/common'
gmake: *** [build_common] Error 2

As a sideline, vtkFloatPoints.h is not included in vtk.h any longer. Nothing
serious, but why?

Thanks in advance,
Julia


Julia Schnabel wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> first of all, I have successfully compiled the new beta release with gcc 2.95.2
> on a sun solaris 2.6 machine. This is a quick summary of little problems that I
> encountered on the way which I'd like to resolve in a better way - maybe anyone
> could help me out here?
> 
> 1) The usual problem with old openwin X11 includes which is successfully fixed
> by setting USER_CXXFLAGS = -fpermissive . (It was suggested that a better way
> would be something like "-isystem /usr/openwin/share/include" which would only
> do a permissive for the system directories, but remain strict anywhere else, but
> that I haven't tried yet).
> 
> Anyway, isn't there any more elegant way of forcing vtk to look for the proper
> X11 first? I've tried a --with-x --x-includes=/usr/X11R6.4/include
> --x-libraries=/usr/X11R6.4/lib but still in systems.make the following is set:
> GRAPHICS_API_FLAGS = -I/usr/openwin/share/include/   -I/usr/X11R6.4/include
> 
> Using the -fpermissive option, I get tons of warnings which I don't like, again
> haven openwin includes before the proper X11 includes:
> In file included from /projects/local/vtk/tk/generic/tk.h:83,
>                  from ./tkAppInit.cxx:14:
> /usr/openwin/share/include/X11/Xlib.h:2063: warning: ANSI C++ forbids
> declaration `XSetTransientForHint' with no type
> and so on and on and on...
> 
> 2) More warnings here which don't seem to make much sense:
> 
> In file included from
> /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkSystemIncludes.h:57,
>                  from /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkIndent.h:52,
>                  from /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkObject.h:67,
>                  from /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkDataObject.h:62,
>                  from /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkDataSet.h:67,
>                  from /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkImageData.h:52,
>                  from /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkImageSource.h:55,
>                  from
> /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/imaging/vtkImageToImageFilter.h:55,
>                  from my_include.h:64,
>                  from my_source.cxx:21:
> /projects/local/vtk/vtk3.2_gcc/common/vtkConfigure.h:16: warning:
> `_HP_NO_FAST_MACROS' redefined
> But there is only one #define _HP_NO_FAST_MACROS in vtkConfigure.h, and nowhere
> else?
> 
> 3) Minor detail, really, but I tried to follow the instructions in Readme.html
> regarding
> building VTK for multiple architectures:
> having vtk3.2 in $VTK_HOME
> mkdir $HOME/vtk_solaris; cd $HOME/vtk-solaris; $VTK_HOME/configure --with-tcl
> This seems to make a proper setup in the new directory, but when running make,
> it can't find the targets dir, nor any of the subtargets like in wrap. This also
> happens when trying to do something like --with-src=$VTK_HOME So I ended up
> copying the whole vtk3.2 tree to vtk_solaris.
> Wouldn't it be better to have configure create architecture dependent libraries
> and binaries under $VTK_HOME/lib and bin, e.g. in suitable subdirs like
> sparc-sun-solaris2.6 or sparc-sun-solaris2.8 or linux or whatever?
> 
> Thanks for reading this far :-) And many more thanks when coming up with (a)
> solution(s)!!!
> 
> Julia

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