[vtkusers] Re:a 'new' RedHAt 7.0 Compile Problem

[Carlos Martinez Burgos]

Hi again.

Yes, I'm stupid.

I have been able to compile VTK on RH7.0 with updates from RedHat website.

When you unzip and untar the source of vtkm the file "user.make" has two
lines of environment variables for TCL/TK that point to their
libraries. They point to files with ".a" extension. So, when I tried to
compile VTK, I searched this libraries in the rpm's of TCL/TK. I found two
libraries libtclstub8.3.a and libtkstub8.3.a to which I set the variables.

Yesterday, I tried compile VTK again, but this time I set TCL_LIB and
TK_LIB to libtcl.so and libtk.so files instead of these with ".a". I run
configure and gmake again and everything was right. No error message and
no segmentation fault.

I'm a new person. If somebody has the same problem that's the
solution. Sorry for all and thanks.

Greetings.



On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Carlos Martinez Burgos wrote:

> Hello again.
> 
> I have built VTK again on RedHat 7.0 in my work but I have the same
> problem. Here I don't have an NVIDIA accelerator. I had updated to
> glibc-2.2 and gcc-2.96-69 from rh70 updates (not had downgraded to
> gcc-2.95).
> 
> I used the user.make file attached.
> I run configure as this:
> ./configure --prefix=$HOME/vtk3.2 --with-opengl --with-tkwidget 
> --with-shared --with-tcl --with-java --with-python --with-patented 
> --with-contrib
> 
> I built using gmake and I get the error attached.
> 
> I solved this error changing in tcl/Makefile file:
> vtk:    Makefile tkAppInit.o ${TOOLKIT_DEPENDS} 
>         $(CXX) -o vtk tkAppInit.o \
>         -L. ${CXX_FLAGS} ${VTK_SHLIB_LINK_FLAGS} ${XLDFLAGS} ${LDLIBS} \
>         ${XLIBS} -lXext -lXt ${X_PRE_LIBS} -lX11 ${X_EXTRA_LIBS} -lm
> 
> by
> 
> vtk:    Makefile tkAppInit.o ${TOOLKIT_DEPENDS} 
>         $(CXX) -o vtk tkAppInit.o \
>         -L. ${CXX_FLAGS} ${VTK_SHLIB_BUILD_FLAGS} ${XLDFLAGS} ${LDLIBS} \
>         ${XLIBS} -lXext -lXt ${X_PRE_LIBS} -lX11 ${X_EXTRA_LIBS} -lm
> 
> OK.
> 
> Now I run a tcl script and get a segmentation fault. If I run vtk with no
> scripts I get a segmentation fault too.
> 
> At home, I built VTK on a Athlon 1000MHz with a NVIDIA Geforce2 MX card
> with RedHat 7.0 with glibc updated to 2.2 and with gcc downgraded to 2.95
> and I had the same problems.
> 
> On another computer, a Pentium 166MMX with a SVIRGE card with Mandrake
> 7.2, I get the same error and after solve it, I get a segmentation fault
> too. Here I run python some examples and run OK but not in tcl.
> 
> I think that the problem is change ${VTK_SHLIB_LINK_FLAGS} by
> ${VTK_SHLIB_BUILD_FLAGS} on tcl/Makefile. What can I do to solve the
> error?
> 
> I don't know what happends. Why I can't get a successfull compilation of
> VTK? What can I do? I think that I'm stupid.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> PS: Sorry for my english but I don't know exactly how to express myself.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Jason RILEY wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > Just a note to say we now have vtk(tcl/tk) running under RedHat 7.0.
> > Thanks for the help.
> > 
> > The solution for us was as follows(The key issue appears to have been, for us, 
> > the RH7 compiler):
> > TCL/Tk - preinstalled 8.3 with RH7
> > OpenGL - installed using the nvidia drivers available on their site for the 
> > GEForceII
> >          (plus: changing the line in the X config file for the graphics card 
> > from
> >                 driver = "nv" to driver = "nvidia")
> > Compiler - downgrading to gcc2.95 with the glibc2.2 patch (rpms from redhat or
> >            gcc site(can't remember which - sorry)
> > 
> > NOTE: problem with this is we had to leave the separate kernel compiler on for 
> > later use, so uninstalling the old rpms for gcc2.96(the RH7 release version) 
> > didn't work to
> > well - it leaves some old libstdc libraries in /usr/lib the new libraries get 
> > installed to /usr/local/lib to get round this we had to add /usr/local/lib to 
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or you could move the files/create the appropriate links).
> > 
> > anyway all that said and done vtk is now running quite happily on RH7
> > I don't know if this will be of help to anyone who still has problems but I 
> > thought I'd send this in case it helps anyone.
> > 
> > Thanks again for your help,
> > Jason
> > 
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