[vtkusers] Recursive Make, vtk project --> undefined references!

[Peter Schmitt]

I get a series of "undefined reference" errors when linking a
visualization project I wrote:

visualize.o(.text+0x7): undefined reference to `vtkSphereSource::New(void)'
visualize.o(.text+0x67): undefined reference to `vtkPolyDataMapper::New(void)'
visualize.o(.text+0x7a): undefined reference to
`vtkPolyDataAlgorithm::GetOutput(void)'
visualize.o(.text+0x88): undefined reference to
`vtkPolyDataMapper::SetInput(vtkPolyData *)'
visualize.o(.text+0xa6): undefined reference to `vtkGlyph3D::New(void)'
... and so on
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I'm using Recursive Make like the following:
#base Makefile:
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viz: CC=/opt/gcc-3.3.2/bin/gcc
viz: CXX=/opt/gcc-3.3.2/bin/g++
viz: CFLAGS=-I$(PWD)/include
viz: CXXFLAGS=-I$(VTK_HOME)/include/vtk -I$(PWD)/include
viz: LDFLAGS=-L$(VTK_HOME)/lib/vtk -lvtkRendering -lvtkGraphics
-lvtkImaging -lvtkFiltering -lvtkCommon -L./vis -lvis

export CC
export CXX
export CFLAGS
export CXXFLAGS
export LDFLAGS

viz: clean libvis.a viz.o
        $(CXX) vis/libvis.a viz.o $(LDFLAGS) -o bin/viz

libvis.a:
        cd vis; make vis

#vis/Makefile:
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OBJS=visualize.o

.SUFFIXES: .C.a

vis: ${OBJS}
        ar rcs libvis.a ${OBJS}

clean:
        rm -f *.o *~
        rm -f libvis.a
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Let's look at the symbols from my object files:
$> nm libvis.a

visualize.o:
00000546 t _GLOBAL__D__Z13initializeVTKP19vtkUnstructuredGridP15vtkRenderWindowP25vtkRenderWindowInteractor
0000052a t _GLOBAL__I__Z13initializeVTKP19vtkUnstructuredGridP15vtkRenderWindowP25vtkRenderWindowInteractor
00000000 T _Z13initializeVTKP19vtkUnstructuredGridP15vtkRenderWindowP25vtkRenderWindowInteractor
000004ec t _Z41__static_initialization_and_destruction_0ii
0000022e T _Z7animatePPfS_ii
         U _ZN10vtkGlyph3D3NewEv
00000000 W _ZN10vtkGlyph3D9SetSourceEP11vtkPolyData
         U _ZN10vtkGlyph3D9SetSourceEiP11vtkPolyData
         U _ZN11vtkRenderer3NewEv
...
more "U" (undefined) symbols....  The libraries dont appear to be
linked properly.
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What's wrong with my syntax when linking?  This code runs fine on one
system (standard Linux Debian install) but breaks (with the "undefined
references" link errors) on another system....