[vtkusers] Build failure for vtk on os x Panther with python

Frederick Grim fgrim at norby.dyndns.org
Thu Mar 18 19:49:58 EST 2004


On Mar 17, 2004, at 11:52 AM, david e ignacio wrote:

> I'd actually look into using the fink version of python when building
> vtk on the Mac.  I have built VTK for my lab to run on both 10.2.7 and
> 10.3.2, and it works like a charm.
>
I have used fink in the past however I don't like having one more 
nonstandard directory
in OS X. its painful enough to s/Users/home/g in my little, fetid, 
brain.
	Fred


> Fink:  fink.sourceforge.net
>
> They actually just recently upgraded version 2.3 into the stable
> branch.  So then after fink install python, change the following values
> in CMake:
>
> PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH=/sw/include/python2.3
> PYTHON_LIBRARY=/sw/lib/python2.3/config/libpython2.3.dylib
>
> Dave
>
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 20:11, Frederick Grim wrote:
>> Howdy all,
>> 	As I get the chance I make a (generally weekly) attempt to build vtk
>> with python bindings.
>> It never works. So I wait a week, lookup some documentation, and try
>> again.  Well I have surrendered
>> Everytime I build vtk with the python bindings (if I can't have em I
>> can't use vtk as python is my prototyping
>> tool) I see a failure like:
>
>




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