building with VTK-6.3 fails

I asked a similar question on Fenics qa without success. It seems I cannot run dolfin with VTK6.3 and QT4. When running the demo/undocumented/plot/cpp example the window briefly appears then disappears with a segmentation fault. Reverting to VTK5.8 works fine. Any ideas what is causing this? I could pin point the segmentation fault to

void VTKWindowOutputStage::render()
{
  Timer timer("VTK render");
  log(TRACE, "calling _renderWindow->Render...");
  _renderWindow->Render(); //seg fault here
  log(TRACE, "...done.");
}

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