Vtk works fine, but not with Python ... ???

[Konrad Hinsen]

Lloyd Zusman <ljz at asfast.com> writes:

> However, when I try to run any vtk Python examples, I get the
> following error no matter what script I try to run:
> 
>   % python earth.py
>   Traceback (innermost last):
>     File "earth.py", line 4, in ?
>       from libVTKGraphicsPython import *
>   ImportError: /usr/local/lib/python1.5/lib-dynload/libVTKGraphicsPython.so:
>       undefined symbol: XtStrings

That's a bug in the VTK makefiles. libVTKGraphicsPython.so must be linked
with the Xt library (add -Xt). Unfortunately I don't remember where
exactly this had to be added; the VTK Makefiles are a bit messy!
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