[vtkusers] Error while building VTK 4.2.1 with CMake on Linux

[William A. Hoffman]

I am not sure how you are getting this error.  
What version of cmake are you using, and exactly how
are you running it?

-Bill


At 06:56 PM 3/6/2003, Joseph Barraud wrote:


>Dear all,
>
>I am on Linux Mandrake 9.1 and CMake gives me the following error message when I try to configure the makefiles for the building of VTK 4.2.1 (i.e. with ccmake, before the display of the list of options):
>
>Determining if the function pthread_create exists in the pthreads failed with the following output:
>echo "Building object file CheckFunctionExists.o..."
>Building object file CheckFunctionExists.o...
>gcc -o CheckFunctionExists.o          -DCHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS=pthread_create -I/home/joseph/ITK_Stuff/VTK/vtk-build/CMakeTmp    -c /usr/local/share/CMake/Modules/CheckFunctionExists.c
>echo "Building executable cmTryCompileExec..."
>Building executable cmTryCompileExec...
>gcc     -rdynamic        -DCHECK_FUNCTION_EXISTS=pthread_create CheckFunctionExists.o    -o cmTryCompileExec -rdynamic -lpthreads
>/usr//bin/ld: cannot find -lpthreads
>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>gmake: *** [cmTryCompileExec] Erreur 1
>
>Do you understand the problem ?
>
>Many thanks,
>Joseph.
>
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