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@@ -10,15 +10,23 @@ interpreted programming languages.
Since version 8.1.0, VTK requires the qt5 package.
+Some optional additional packages, if detected during configuration, are used
+in preference to versions provided in the source code. These packages, available
+from SlackBuilds.org, are:
+ jsoncpp proj
+
You can enable a number of optional features by passing variables to the script
-(VAR=yes/no ./VTK.SlackBuild):
+(VAR=yes|no ./VTK.SlackBuild):
IMAGING=yes|no (default: no)
MPI=yes|no (default: no), requires openmpi
-TCL=yes|no (default: yes)
TK=yes|no (default: yes)
VIEWS=yes|no (default: no)
WEB=yes|no (default: no), requires python-twisted
JAVA=yes|no (default: no), requires jdk
PYTHON=yes|no (default: yes)
QT=yes|no (default: yes)
+
+VTK is an optional dependency for the opencv SlackBuild. However since VTK-8.2.0,
+it is not suitable as an optional dependency for opencv-legacy. The last suitable
+version of VTK for building opencv-legacy is VTK-8.1.2.