Description of problem:

/usr/lib64/cmake/pcl/PCLConfig.cmake has this from line 287 onwards:

  if (VTK_FOUND AND NOT ANDROID)
    set(VTK_LIBRARIES vtkCommonCore vtkRenderingCore)
  endif(VTK_FOUND AND NOT ANDROID)

But the vtk package from EPEL for RHEL6 doesn't seem to provide the vtkCommonCore or the vtkRenderingCore libraries. From a glance it looks like these may have made their appearance with vtk 6, but the version of in EPEL for RHEL6 is 5.8.0.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

pcl-1.7.1-7.el6.x86_64
pcl-devel-1.7.1-7.el6.x86_64
vtk-5.8.0-6.el6.1.x86_64
vtk-devel-5.8.0-6.el6.1.x86_64


How reproducible:

Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install pcl-devel and vtk-devel from EPEL for RHEL6
2. get pcd_write.cpp and CMakeLists.txt from http://pointclouds.org/documentation/tutorials/writing_pcd.php
3. mkdir build; cd build; cmake ..; make


Actual results:

Linking CXX executable pcd_write
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lvtkCommonCore


Expected results:

Linking CXX executable pcd_write
[100%] Built target pcd_write


Additional info:

Removing the lines from PCLConfig.cmake or altering ones CMakeLists.txt to read like this will allow the example program to build:

find_package(PCL 1.2 REQUIRED)
list(REMOVE_ITEM PCL_LIBRARIES vtkCommonCore vtkRenderingCore)

I cannot tell if this is a good workaround, though.