[MOAB-dev] Problems configuring MOAB with VTK

[Robert Maynard]

I am away for the office today and tomorrow, but I can answer more VTK questions on Friday. 

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On Feb 6, 2013, at 7:13 AM, Tim Tautges <tautges at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:

> I'll take the blame for messing that up, I was playing fast and loose with the VTK configure (thinking that tools/vtkMOABReader[New] were the only tools relying on it.  More below...
> 
> On 02/06/2013 07:58 AM, Roman Putanowicz wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> This isn't a problem that MOAB is looking for a ParaView library. It has to
>>> do with MOAB is looking for VTK 6.0.
>> OK I see. Thank you for a quick answer.
>> 
>>> So to have MOAB configure against VTK 5.10 and lower I would replace
>>> vtkCommonCore with vtkCommon.
>> Well, I have tried this already but then I have problems with AC_HAVE_LIB
>> macro which apparently looks for function "main" in the library and the
>> check fails.
>> 
>> It looks like I will compile VTK 6.0 (it can look silly but will be
>> the fastest way).
>> 
>>  Just as a side note -- how you guys deal with tools
>> dependencies -- they just eat my time, especially when I switch to
>> a compiler different than gcc or go outside standard packages.
>> With the above I mean rather large development environment, where
>> tools are not just installed but managed -- tested (and test results
>> recorded), build with release and debug version, benchmarked, etc.
>> Is it only my impression that keeping tidy and reliable development
>> environment is a Sisyphus work.
> 
> A very good point, and something I should be more sensitive about.  I'll think on this point the next day or two and start another thread on it, so stay tuned.
> 
> - tim
> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Roman
> 
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