[vtkusers] vtk6 + autoconf

[Gorman, Gerard J]

Hi Bill

*want* is not the issue - it is just not very practical in this case. I work on application codes that are already pretty complex with many dependencies inside an already complex software environment (various supercomputing platforms) that already use autoconf. It is a non trivial task to convert these over from using autoconf to using cmake - not to mention that replacing one working build system with another just to satisfy one dependency is a hard sell to co-developers.

Cheers
Gerard


On 30 Aug 2013, at 00:08, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com<mailto:bill.lorensen at gmail.com>>
 wrote:

I assume you do not want to use cmake/



On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Gorman, Gerard J <g.gorman at imperial.ac.uk<mailto:g.gorman at imperial.ac.uk>> wrote:
Hi

Does anyone have an autoconf solution supporting VTK6?

More generally, what's the problem with providing a high level library that effectively links all VTK dependencies so that we can simple -lvtk rather than having to work out the dependencies for every release of VTK? It's not a very practical position to insist that any application that depends on VTK must use cmake for its build system.

Cheers
Gerard

_______________________________________________
Powered by www.kitware.com<http://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



--
Unpaid intern in BillsBasement at noware dot com

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.vtk.org/pipermail/vtkusers/attachments/20130829/62bebb4b/attachment.htm>