[vtkusers] OSX 10.6 TCL issue "libvtkRendering.5.4.dylib: GC capability mismatch" ( solution too )

[David Gobbi]

If the correct fix requires a version of CMake more recent than 2.6,
then the correct fix will have to wait.  In the meantime, the current
fix is a lot better than nothing.

   David


On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
> Nope. All you are going to accomplish is generate a pile of noise on the vtk
> mailing list from Mac programmers who are on 10.6 but have to support
> customers on 10.4 (yes, it happens). Then we have to go and write up a wiki
> explaining that the defaults for vtk are WRONG and don't really work well on
> OS X and _these_ are the settings that one has to use to get it correctly
> built on OS X.
>   Go back and look at the older paraview archives when ParaView was an X11
> app (ParaView version 2.x). It RARELY built correctly on OS X with its
> default build values and ALWAYS generated list traffic from OS X users
> wanting to build it. Do the work now to get it right.
> ___________________________________________________________
> Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
> Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
> BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2010, at 12:18 PM, David Gobbi wrote:
>
>> If people are building on 10.6 with a 10.4 deployment target, then
>> they can set the flag manually in their cmake cache.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at
> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Please keep messages on-topic and check the VTK FAQ at:
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_FAQ
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.vtk.org/mailman/listinfo/vtkusers
>