u...@debian.org (Aaron M. Ucko) writes: > Ole Streicher <oleb...@debian.org> writes: > >> I am currently packaging a Qt/C++ program (dpuser+qfitsview [1]) that >> requires VTK6, and I am curious of how I have to specify the include >> path and the libraries. > > To the best of my knowledge, the only build system VTK supports cleanly > is CMake, which I understand to be generally popular in the Qt (or at > least KDE) community. Perhaps you could convince/help upstream to > migrate? https://sourceforge.net/projects/qmake2cmake/ might provide a > decent starting point.
The package is already quite "strange" (due to its historical origin), and I doubt the upstream would put much effort in it. Is there a reason that the libvtk6-dev package does not provide the usual links like /usr/include/vtk -> vtk-6 /usr/include/vtk-6 -> vtk-6.2 libvtkGUISupportQt.so -> libvtkGUISupportQt-6.2.so libvtkGUISupportQt-6.so -> libvtkGUISupportQt-6.2.so ? This would allow to use these libraries without black magic. Best regards Ole