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

[Sean McBride]

On 3/5/10 12:56 PM, Michael Jackson said:

>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.

Perhaps we could check the deployment target first (which assumes a
newer CMake), and if it's not there (older CMake) then fall back to
testing the SDK version?

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