[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#572131: Bug#572131: libinsighttoolkit3-dev: built against tcl8.4 but vtk is against 8.5

[Michal Suchanek]

On 03/02/2010 02:47 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Michal Suchanek
> <michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz>  wrote:
>    
>> On 03/02/2010 12:37 AM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>      
>>> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:49 PM, Michal Suchanek<hramrach at centrum.cz>
>>> <michal.suchanek at ruk.cuni.cz>   wrote:
>>>
>>>        
>>>> Package: libinsighttoolkit3-dev
>>>> Version: 3.16.0-1j
>>>> Severity: normal
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I tried building InsightApplications against the Debian packages
>>>> libvtk5-dev and libinsighttoolkit3-dev but the build is failing to
>>>> locate the tcl headers`.
>>>>
>>>> After adding CFLAGS I got error that /usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so cannot be
>>>> built. It looks like tcl 8.5 is used by vtk but 8.4 by vtk which does
>>>> not fit together well.
>>>>
>>>>          
>>> Could you please copy/paste the *exact* compilation error.
>>> I believe this is due to the fact that CMake does transitive linking.
>>> If a library Foo links against libtcl8.5.so.0, there are cases where
>>> cmake will try to link to both -lFoo and -ltcl8.5 when -lFoo only is
>>> sufficient.
>>>
>>> As a simple work-around one need to install the -dev package for tcl8.5
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>        
>> Yes, the workaround works for me.
>>
>> However, the exact error is not very enlightening because the error is about
>> missing tcl.h and only after adding some tcl.h into header search path the
>> build would complain about missing libtcl8.5.so
>>
>> The problem could be probably easily diagnosed if cmake printed the commands
>> it executes but I did not find anything in the cmake help about any option
>> to turn it on.
>>      
> $ make VERBOSE=1
>
>
>
>    

I guess this is a problem with libvtk5-dev which should depend on the 
tcl version which was used to build it but does not.

This problem would be hidden if both itk and vtk used the same tcl 
version and it would be generally nicer but both require their own 
version to build correctly.

Thanks

Michal