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

[David Gobbi]

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> 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?

I'll have to leave this up to you, I'm unfamiliar with the the CMake
bits related to OS X deployment target.

   David