[vtkusers] compiling vtk

[Prabhu Ramachandran]

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles James Leonardo Quarra Cappiello <charsquarra at hotmail.com> writes:

    Charles> make (three hours later...)  make install ldconfig

    Charles> all the vtklibraries are correctly linked by ldconfig;
    Charles> however, the vtk-python binary rpm reports the following
    Charles> unsatisfied dependencies

    Charles> # rpm -i vtk-python-4.3.0-1.cvs20031022.i386.rpm
    Charles> error: Failed dependencies:
    Charles>         libvtkCommon.so is needed by

RPM's do not see dependencies by looking at what libraries are on the
system.  They do so by looking at what other rpms you have installed.
So once you did a make install; ldconfig you installed VTK outside of
RPM's world view and therefore it complains.  However since you are
building VTK from sources anyway there is no need to install the
vtk-python rpm.  Do the following:

 make 
 make install
 ldconfig

This might not be enough and you might need to add a line in
/etc/ld.so.conf
 /usr/local/lib/vtk

and then rerun ldconfig.  Once that is done do this:

 cd Wrapping/Python
 python setup.py install --prefix=/usr/local

You might also want to read Wrapping/Python/README.txt

If all goes well you should be able to use vtk-python without
installing the rpms.

cheers,
prabhu