Re: [Libmesh-users] configure path

[Wout R. <wou...@gm...>]

I am not aware of a general VTK_LIB.
As far as I know vtk projects use Cmake and need a VTKConfig.cmake
somewhere to read such variables from.

In my view any path is fine as default, since there really isn't a
default (cmake generally installs in /usr/local/... by default).
So specifying on the command line at configure is the way forward.

W



./configure  --with-vtk-lib=/usr/lib64

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 11:15 PM, John Peterson <jwp...@gm...> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Roy Stogner <ro...@st...> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, David Fuentes wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> on my 64bit machine,
>>> the configure scripts are setting the vtk library path
>>> to  /usr/lib
>>>
>>> what is the proper way to have the configure script default
>>> to  /usr/lib64
>>>
>>>
>>> i guess i could also run
>>>
>>>  ./configure  --with-vtk-lib=/usr/lib64
>>
>> That's the best way to do things at the moment.
>>
>> The VTK configuration is overwriting VTK_LIB in our aclocal.m4 file;
>> should we be testing for an existing VTK_LIB environment variable
>> first, and using that if it exists?
>
> Yes, assuming that VTK_LIB is a standard environment variable set by
> people who use VTK.  I'm not familiar enough with VTK to know; when I
> wrote that configure test I just picked something random.
>
> We should probably at least change that configure variable to
> LIBMESH_VTK_LIB and check to see if the user already has set something
> for VTK_LIB (or whatever the standard one may be.)
>
> --
> John
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