[Therion] How to compile without Loch

[Wookey]

+++ Roger Schuster [2009-05-31 22:01 +0200]:
> Hi,
>
>
> Bill Gee schrieb:
>
>> CentOS repositories do not include any VTK packages, so I had to build 
>> VTK 5.4 from source.  

Really? Pick a better distro :-)

> VTK 5.4 is too new - I got Loch only compiled against VTK 5.0.x. VTK 5.2  
> didn't work. And I had to compile VTK from source because libvtk /  
> libvtk-dev that comes with Debian / Ubuntu seems to be incomplete.

Therion (5.2.8) builds and works fine with both VTK5.2 and VTK 5.4
(the versions provided in debian testing unstable respectively.
The version is hard-coded in the loch/Makefile in upstream sources.

If you use the Debian packaged version then it will select whichever
VTK version is available on the build system (which allows it to build
on testing or unstable, and it may wel work on stable to (VTK 5.0) but
I haven't tested that). If this doesn't work for you I'd like
to know about it.

http://packages.debian.org/sid/therion

5.2.8 has not migrated into tested yet because there are build issues
on several architectures: mipsel, i386, s390. I will investigate those
shortly. 

Wookey
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