[Insight-developers] Dashboard Cleanup: mini0.nlm MacOSX-cross-rosetta : 50 tests failing

[Bradley Lowekamp]

Hello Michel,

I have not done a separate build but, min0 on the nightly board came back clean indicating that the nrrd changes may be the cause of the issue. Did you do a clean build on you system?

Brad

On Jan 22, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Michel Audette wrote:

> Hi Brad,
> 
> I have reverted to the old NrrdIO files (if you grep Copyright, they
> are all 2005), committed yesterday, and I'm finding that with
> CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES:STRING=ppc that the same tests are failing.
> 
> I did a ctest -D Experimental -R Nrr
> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=521044
> 
> Can you check out ITK, retry it and report back? If that's the case,
> we should discuss how to proceed, since the recent commits in early
> January are probably not causing the failing tests that you are
> seeing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Michel
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Bradley Lowekamp
> <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>> Hello Michel,
>> The difference is the following CMake variable:
>> CMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES:STRING=ppc
>> This makes a build for the PowerPC architecture, but the actual processor is
>> a x86 intel. The test are run in an emulation mode which apple has for the
>> transition from ppc to i386 architecture. This is why they are so slow.
>> Brad
>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Michel Audette wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Bradley,
>> 
>> can you indicate to me the difference between your build and the other Mac
>> builds? I'm doing an experimental now on one of the Macs, and I know that
>> RogueResearch is all Mac as well, and these machines don't seem to exhibit
>> the errors.
>> 
>> Thanks for your kind support.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Michel
>> 
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Bradley Lowekamp <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov>
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Gordon,
>>> 
>>> I have been running that system with the cross compilation for well over a
>>> year. It has been slow running, and not found may issues before. It has been
>>> working just fine with NRRD this whole time. This is the day when the errors
>>> started to occur:
>>> 
>>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/index.php?project=Insight&date=2010-01-13
>>> 
>>> There was not much else updated that day:
>>> 
>>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewUpdate.php?buildid=513971
>>> 
>>> Brad
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Gordon L. Kindlmann wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi-
>>>> 
>>>> (Bradley- Hi- I'm not including the whole list but wanted to ask you a
>>>> question about this)
>>>> 
>>>> I'm sorry that I haven't been able to keep up with this (the NrrdIO
>>>> update); lots of other professor responsibilities that I'm behind on
>>>> as usual.
>>>> 
>>>> I will review the previous emails (with Luis and Michel) about this
>>>> now and try to respond.
>>>> 
>>>> In any case, if things were broken as a results of the updates, those
>>>> should be backed out.
>>>> 
>>>> Bradley- have you always been running all the ITK tests under the same
>>>> cross-endienness cross-compilation?  Had you seen any NRRD-related
>>>> problems prior to the recent updates?
>>>> 
>>>> Gordon
>>>> 
>>>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Brad,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks a lot for looking into this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there something that we could do
>>>>> on our side to track the problem down ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Michel:   Could you please follow on this ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>    Thanks
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>           Luis
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> -----------------------------------
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Bradley Lowekamp
>>>>> <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
>>>>>> The occurred with the NRRD upgrade.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Due to the oddness of the cross build,  (Building for ppc, but
>>>>>> running on an intel) one of the first things I'd check is that the
>>>>>> endianess is handled correctly. That is is should be a compile time
>>>>>> check for apple systems. ITK does this correctly, but NRRD may do
>>>>>> it differently.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Brad
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jan 20, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi Brad,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> There are 50 tests failing in
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  mini0.nlm
>>>>>>>  MacOSX-cross-rosetta
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Most of them seem to be related to IO tests.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewTest.php?onlyfailed&buildid=519324
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Do you have any hint on what may be the source of the problem ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>  Thanks
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>     Luis
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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>> --
>> Michel Audette, Ph.D.
>> R & D Engineer,
>> Kitware Inc.,
>> Chapel Hill, N.C.
>> 
>> 
>> ========================================================
>> 
>> Bradley Lowekamp
>> 
>> Lockheed Martin Contractor for
>> 
>> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>> 
>> National Library of Medicine
>> 
>> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Michel Audette, Ph.D.
> R & D Engineer,
> Kitware Inc.,
> Chapel Hill, N.C.