[Paraview] building paraview on a linux box...

[Kevin H. Hobbs]

On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 19:00 +0200, fred wrote:
> Hi the list,
> 
> Trying to build paraview, I have a few questions.
> 
> First, after built it, paraview complains it does not find tcl8.4 lib.
> tcl8.4 is in /usr/lib (as tk8.4) , but paraview does not look for in it,
> but :
> 
> ParaView error: InitializeTcl failed
> Tcl_Init error: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories:
>     /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4 /home/lib/tcl8.4 /lib/tcl8.4 /home/library
> /library /tcl8.4.5/library /usr/local/lib/tcl8.4
> 
> I have set LD_LIBRARY_PATH because I need it, but paraview should look
> for in /usr/lib, no ?
> 
> 
> If I set a link in /usr/local/lib/{tcl,tk} to /usr/lib, it works fine,
> but I don't like this solution ;-)
> 
> I don't see anything in concern with TCL_INCLUDE_PATH (as in building VTK).
> What am I doing wrong ?
> 

I recall having to set TCLLIBPATH="~/kitware/ParaView_Build/lib/tcl8.4/"
but this has been "fixed in CVS"


> Second, I have already vtk (5.0) built/installed in /usr/local.
> But building paraview seems to build it anyway.
> How can I tell to paraview building to use the already existing vtk in
> /usr/local ?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

You don't. I know there is extra stuff in the ParaView VTK. 
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