Bug 462406

Install mesa-libOSMesa-devel to get libOSMesa.so.  vtk-devel probably should have a Requires: mesa-libOSMesa-devel added.

Yes, installing mesa-libOSMesa-devel fixes the problem. 

I agree that adding the dependency would make sense, although I am not entirely sure why mesa-libOSMesa-devel adds the "libOSMesa.so" symbolic link, when mesa-libOSMesa adds a symbolic link "libOSMesa.so.6"; but I guess that's beside the point as far as the vtk packages are concerned.

In the alternative, is it possible to build VTK in such a way that it is built against libOSMesa.so.6 rather than libOSMesa.so? This way, RPM dependencies could be maintained, and one would avoid the otherwise unnecessary installation of the libOSMesa devel package.

Torsten, thanks for reporting - Orion's suggestion is correct, the dependency is simply missing in *-devel.

As to *.so vs *.so.<number>: The latter is already automatically picked up by rpm for the runtime components, but the *.so is what you want to build against (which is just a symlink, but still is the first order link target).

There is a new vtk pending anyway due to a new upstream release. Until the package is hammered up, please just install mesa-libOSMesa-devel wherever you use vtk-devel in the way you quote above.

For what it's worth: VTK also requires /usr/lib64/libexpat.so, but the provider package, expat-devel, is not an RPM dependency of vtk.

I assume that's not worth a separate bug report?

Of course, it's all going to depend on what VTK libraries you use as to what other -devel packages you need.  Not sure you want to add all of them as requires to vtk-devel.

/usr/lib/vtk-5.0/VTKLibraryDepends.cmake:

SET(vtkCommonTCL_LIB_DEPENDS "vtkCommon;/usr/lib/libtcl.so;m;")
SET(vtkIO_LIB_DEPENDS "vtkFiltering;vtkDICOMParser;/usr/lib/libpng.so;/usr/lib/libz.so;/usr/lib/libz.so;/usr/lib/libjpeg.so;/usr/lib/libtiff.so;/usr/lib/libexpat.so;")
SET(vtkRendering_LIB_DEPENDS "vtkGraphics;vtkImaging;vtkIO;vtkftgl;/usr/lib/libfreetype.so;/usr/lib/libz.so;/usr/lib/libGL.so;/usr/lib/libOSMesa.so;-lXt;-lSM;-lICE;-lSM;-lICE;/usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;/usr/lib/libX11.so;/usr/lib/libXext.so;")
SET(vtkRenderingPythonTkWidgets_LIB_DEPENDS "vtkRendering;/usr/lib/libtk.so;/usr/lib/libtcl.so;m;")
SET(vtkRenderingTCL_LIB_DEPENDS "vtkRendering;vtkGraphicsTCL;vtkImagingTCL;/usr/lib/libtk.so;/usr/lib/libtcl.so;m;")
SET(vtkVolumeRendering_LIB_DEPENDS "vtkRendering;vtkIO;/usr/lib/libOSMesa.so;")
SET(vtkftgl_LIB_DEPENDS "/usr/lib/libGL.so;/usr/lib/libfreetype.so;")
SET(QVTK_LIB_DEPENDS "/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so;vtkRendering;vtkGraphics;vtkImaging;vtkCommon;")
SET(QVTKWidgetPlugin_LIB_DEPENDS "/usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so;vtkRendering;vtkIO;vtkImaging;vtkGraphics;vtkFiltering;vtkCommon;")

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I need to check whether this is really fixed or not, setting to rawhide.

(In reply to comment #4)
> For what it's worth: VTK also requires /usr/lib64/libexpat.so, but the provider
> package, expat-devel, is not an RPM dependency of vtk.
> 
> I assume that's not worth a separate bug report?  

Torsten, can you point me to where vtk (runtime/devel) requires libexpat.so? I'd like to collect all pieces for vtk-devel. Thanks!

> Torsten, can you point me to where vtk (runtime/devel) requires libexpat.so?
> I'd like to collect all pieces for vtk-devel. Thanks!  

Axel: 

On x86_64/F11, line 36 in /usr/lib64/vtk-5.2/VTKLibraryDepends.cmake says

  SET("vtkIO_LIB_DEPENDS" "general;vtkFiltering;general;vtkDICOMParser;general;vtkNetCDF;general;vtkmetaio;general;vtksqlite;general;/usr/lib64/libpng.so;general;/usr/lib64/libz.so;general;/usr/lib64/libz.so;general;/usr/lib64/libjpeg.so;general;/usr/lib64/libtiff.so;general;/usr/lib64/libexpat.so;general;vtksys;")

which has, among other, a dependency to /usr/lib64/libexpat.so. It seems that this link is currently provided by the expat-devel package.

Hope this helps. Thanks for being persistent :)

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
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*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 605640 ***