[vtkusers] vtk6 + autoconf

[Bill Lorensen]

A goole search for "vtk autoconf" shows a few solutions. They may be old,
bit a good starting for someone familiar with autoconf.



On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Gorman, Gerard J
<g.gorman at imperial.ac.uk>wrote:

>  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>
>  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
> > 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
>>
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