[MacPorts] #37792: vtk5 at 5.10.1 Build error - failure

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#37792: vtk5 at 5.10.1 Build error - failure
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  Reporter:  dialkforkaushik@…  |      Owner:  adfernandes@…
      Type:  defect             |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal             |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports              |    Version:  2.1.2
Resolution:                     |   Keywords:
      Port:  vtk5               |
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Comment (by istlota@…):

 I do not wish to appear to be beating a dead horse. But, in the interest
 of others who might wish to try and install mayavi, or VTK5, or gimp, with
 Snow Leopard:

 1) The fix Johan mentioned was born from a failure to install VTK5 on Snow
 Leopard v10.6.7 .

 2) I did not get that same error when port install vtk5 failed, but I am
 running Snow Leopard v10.6.8 which or may not matter. In any event, I
 tried editing IOKit:FILEPATH, but port install vtk5 failed again.

 3) However, examination of the error msg [from the term session, not from
 the VTK5 main.log] revealed that there was a problem with the VTK5 buiild
 not finding gimp:

   --->  Scanning binaries for linking errors: 28.1%
   Warning: Error parsing file
 /Applications/MacPorts/GIMP.app/Contents/MacOS/GIMP: Error opening or
 reading file

 4) Which makes sense because I have not installed the Mac Port for GIMP.
 That does, however, raise the question of if port install vtk5 knows gimp
 is a dependency.

 5) I then tried a port install gimp, but that failed, with the same error
 about not being able to open or read the gimp file.

 This has me thinking that, maybe, my initial problems with installing
 py27-mayavi were due to vtk5 failing to install, which was due to gimp
 failing to install. Ergo, that maybe the root of all these problems is
 that the mac port of gimp is incompatible with Snow Leopard v10.6.8.

 Final note. Rather than upgrading to Lion, and opening the door to
 possible Lion compatibility issues with some of my apps which do work with
 Snow Leopard, I have been using an alternate Way to get mayavi working
 with Snow Leopard, which is to install the sage package [from sagemath.org
 because Mac Ports does not have a port for it]. One gotcha with that Way,
 however, is that sage only supports up to Python v2.7 .

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/37792#comment:13>
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