[vtkusers] installing vtk on RHEL; fails to find Python.h

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi Rahul,

Is Python.h in your /usr/local/lib/python2.4 directory? If not, set 
PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH to the directory containing this file. Also, 
PYTHON_LIBRARY should be set to the full path to the python library, 
including the library name (probably something ending in .a or .so).

- Amy

Rahul Nabar wrote:
> I tried installing vtk so that I can use it from Python. I'm not too
> familiar with cmake but I tried to answer correctly the many questions
> that it had for me.
>
> Yet my make fails to find the header file Python.h;  with this message:
>
> [  0%] Building C object Wrapping/CMakeFiles/vtkWrapPython.dir/vtkWrapPython.o
> In file included from /src/VTK/Wrapping/vtkWrapPython.c:16:
> /src/VTK/Common/vtkPython.h:44:22: error: Python.h: No such file or directory
> make[2]: *** [Wrapping/CMakeFiles/vtkWrapPython.dir/vtkWrapPython.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [Wrapping/CMakeFiles/vtkWrapPython.dir/all] Error 2
> make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>
> Any suggestions which variable I must have set wrong? I list below the
> path's I thought were relevant; perhaps I'm totally off!
>
> PYTHON_INCLUDE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.4
> PYTHON_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/python2.4
> CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX= /usr/local/vtk
> BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON
>  CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=''
>
>
> Is there any other way of installing VTK on my RHEL system? cmake
> seems very messy. Any rpm / yum / srpm options?
>
> -Rahul
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