[vtkusers] VTK + Python on Solaris

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

Hi,

>>>>> "ECC" == Craig C Epifanio writes:

    ECC> I am trying to build VTK 4.2.2 with Python 2.2.2 on Solaris 8
    ECC> so that I can try out the MayaVi visualization code.  I have
    ECC> sucessfully managed to compile VTK and both the c++ and tcl
    ECC> examples run beautifully for the most part.  But when I try
    ECC> to use python I get the following error:

    ECC> ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file
    ECC> /usr/local/src/VTK-4.2.2/bin/libvtkCommonPython.so: symbol
    ECC> __1cDstdMbasic_string4Ccn0ALchar_traits4Cc__n0AJallocator4Cc___J__nullref_:
    ECC> referenced symbol not found

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I'm not sure this will help but does it work when you use the
vtkpython interpreter instead of the Python interpreter?  There should
be a vtkpython executable that is built inside the bin directory.
This binary was created specifically to help with problems such as
these.

cheers,
prabhu