Hello, I am trying to build salome-3.2.6 on my gentoo box (http://www.salome-platform.org) Salome needs VTK. When I run the salome GUI configure procedure, I get: --------------------------------------------- testing VTK --------------------------------------------- configure: checking for VTK... checking for X... libraries , headers configure: WARNING: undefined VTKHOME variable which specify where vtk was compiled checking vtkPlane.h usability... no checking vtkPlane.h presence... no checking for vtkPlane.h... no no configure: WARNING: unable to link with vtk library for VTK: no Where vtkPlane.h is in /usr/include/vtk-5.0 I looked at the 'configure' script and it requires indeed a variable VTKHOME. It also expects vtk headers to be in /usr/include/vtk, not vtk-5.0. There however, I don't really know what to do. Daniel Reproducible: Always
I'm sorry, but Gentoo Bugzilla is not a support forum for writing your own ebuilds nor a place to seek help with random third party stuff that's not in the official tree. We have forums.gentoo.org and #gentoo-dev-help on Freenode for such things.
I don't understand your comment. vtk-5.0.3 _is_ in the official tree. I am trying to build an application that relies on VTK and complains about a lack of environment variables VTKHOME (which apparently is a standard one regarding VTK), I thought it was relevant to mention it to improve the existing ebuild. Regarding the writing of own ebuilds, here is an interesting point. I wrote several ones, send them to overlay and put them on the bugs.gentoo.org, asking for inclusion and test with _very limited_ feedback if any. I can understand guys that you have already your hands full and that a day is only 24 hours, however, it's a pity that the inclusion of new ebuilds to the official tree takes so much times (when it does happen...). It kills off any initiative, to be honest....
(In reply to comment #2) > I don't understand your comment. > vtk-5.0.3 _is_ in the official tree. I am trying to build an application that > relies on VTK and complains about a lack of environment variables VTKHOME > (which apparently is a standard one regarding VTK), I thought it was relevant > to mention it to improve the existing ebuild. OK, I take it you are going to file more bugs about about python, tcl, PyQt, hdf5 etc. etc. and bunch of others because they don't pollute the environment with some salome-specific envvar stuff that the thing expects because it can't detect stuff properly? http://www.salome-platform.org/ex/doc3.2.6/GUI/doc/salome/gui/GUI/kernel/readme.html#env_files > it's a pity that the inclusion of new ebuilds to the official tree > takes so much times (when it does happen...). It kills off any initiative, to > be honest.... There are only 2476 new ebuild/ebuild request bugs open ATM: http://tinyurl.com/32opeu Sorry, but we no way have enough people to maintain ever one third of them.