#21186: vtk5 +carbon +python variants fail to build on Snow Leopard -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Reporter: stefan.janecek@… | Owner: macports-tickets@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.8.0 Keywords: | Port: vtk5 -----------------------------------+---------------------------------------- Changes (by dweber@…): * cc: jjstickel@… (added) Comment: I'm very busy in my paid job lately - my apologies for not keeping up with things here in MacPorts. Hmmm, so many issues to consider in these posts. I'm playing things safe in my work, staying with Leopard for a while, until many of Snow Leopard bugs and many of the upstream development bugs are fixed for this new OS release. My guess is that the dependency on carbon should be phased out. The main display libraries on OSX should move to cocoa (hence that is the default for vtk-devel). Having said that, it doesn't help fix these issues quickly. It looks like the vtk-devel build fails because it was not programmed for 64bit carbon, so that's an upstream issue to post with kitware and see what they can do about it. I'm not aware of their policy on supporting bug fixes for carbon going forward with Snow Leopard etc. for the OSX platform. I've never used mayavi or looked into the dependency issues for the build and install. Are we talking about 'py25-mayavi'? The default for vtk- devel is to install wrappers for python2.6, but it's also got a variant for python2.5 (haven't started looking at python3.0). It looks like the mayavi port may need some attention to bring it up to speed with developments in the dependency tree, including py26, vtk-devel, and/or wxPython. I would be looking at ways to get away from carbon at this point. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macports.org/ticket/21186#comment:7> MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> Ports system for Mac OS