VTK 5.8.0 directories

[Alastair McKinstry <mckinstry@debian.org>]

Hi,

I'm testing out the vtk 5.8.0 (uploaded to experimental, currently in 
the NEW queue)
built by Matheiu, using it to build visit 2.3.2.

visit currently expects to find its libraries in /usr/lib/vtk-5.8; in 
this directory
there are already a bunch of .so links to the same .so library in 
/usr/lib ;
shall we remove these links and fix vtk users (visit, paraview, ...) to 
look purely
within the library directory ?

(the links currently present are .so files ; to get visit to build I 
needed to add
libvtkCommon.so.5.8.0 -> ../libvtkCommon.so.5.8.0 etc.)

At the same time, we are transitioning to multiarch: these libraries 
will probably
need to go to /usr/lib/<triplet>. Shall we fix visit, paraview, etc. to 
build from these
directories and remove the symlinks?

regards
Alastair

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