[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Paraview: help failed

[Ondrej Certik]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Gerber van der Graaf
<gerber.vdgraaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here some ideas how I got compiled the paraview deb package on a fresh
> updated Debian/Unstable:
>
> Applying "svn up -r 2340" turned out to be the identical release as the
> original debian package from
> http://debian.certik.cz/debian/. Tough, this release does not support qt
> 4.4.0 (the current version in Debian/Unstable).
>
> Now from the latest svn checkout (without doing "svn up -r 2340"), I
> changed debian/rules, line 25: -DVTK_USE_MPEG2_ENCODER=OFF.
> So vtkMPEG2Encode_INCLUDE_PATH and
> vtkMPEG2Encode_LIBRARIES are not required anymore, but I do not know the
> effects during operation of the program. To support qt 4.4.0 I modified
> debian/patches/configure.patch line 10 to:
> +STRING(REGEX MATCH "^4\\.[2-4]\\.[0-9]+" qt_version_tmp "${QTVERSION}")
>
> During compilation of
> VTK/Rendering/CMakeFiles/vtkRendering.dir/vtkGraphicsFactory.o
> it tunrned out that X11/StringDefs.h and X11/Intrinsic.h are missing. So
> libxt-dev is probably needed in the dependancy list in debian/control.
>
> When installing the package, though, paraview exits with:
> Floating point exception
> Any ideas?

Please post here the full patch, so that I can just apply it and try it myself.

Ondrej