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

Rahul Nabar rpnabar at gmail.com
Wed May 28 21:54:50 EDT 2008


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Rahul Nabar <rpnabar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks again Amy. I found the file and now have  a successful install
> (almost). After the make I could not make install. (make: *** No rule
> to make target `install'.  Stop.)
>
> I had set the variable CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX  to the directory
> /usr/local/vtk     in the hope that the binaries etc. would reside
> there after the install. Unfortunately that dir remains empty.
>
> I do find that I can run vtk by pointing to ./bin/vtk from my
> install-source dir. Can I just copy this file to my desired location.
> Or is there a preferred way out. Why is there no install target? I'm
> confused!



Finally I got it working. The make install target is not made if the
VTK_USE_RPATH is set to ON.

-- 
Rahul



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