[Insight-developers] [Announcement] ITK 4.2.0 Release Candidate 1 ready for testing!

[Matt McCormick]

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:15 AM, Bradley Lowekamp <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for your feedback.
>
> On Jun 5, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 10:23:42AM -0400, Bradley Lowekamp wrote:
>
> The purpose of the release candidates is to allow the community to
>
> testing and verify the code prior to the release.  Feedback is
>
> encouraged.  Impressions or patches will help improve the result as
>
> refinement and bug-fixes are made for the final release.
>
>
> I just pulled the release candidate and am trying to build on Debian
> linux.  I see the process is downloading some of the external
> libraries during the build.
>
>
> There are many configuration options available. I will assume that you are
> just trying to build ITK with the default options, if you are trying to
> build WrapITK let us know as the advice will change a little.
>
> In the default configuration testing and examples are enabled. This adds a
> dependency to download data. So this should be disabled if network access
> needs to be avoided. While I don't think it has been done yet, it should be
> possible to create a second tar ball of the data, and that will either need
> to be extracted into a specific location in the source code, or an
> environment variable will need to be specified to it's path.

The release tarballs contain the testing data, so it will not be a
problem once the tarballs are used.

Thanks for working on the Debian packages!

Matt

>
> Turning on FFTW ( off by default ), will automatically download the source
> code and compile if that option is turned on, and a system library is not
> specified.
>
>
>
> The Debian build process forbids network access during a build.  Will
> the released tarball also have this download-during-build mechanism or
> will it contain all the required sources?  In the former case, is
> there an automated way to download everything required and create a
> new tarball?
>
>
> By changing the configuration options and specify dependencies to the system
> libraries and headers, there should not be a need for downloading during
> compilation. ( Perhaps we should just have an AIRPLANE_MODE configuration
> option ).
>
>
> By default no library or library source code should need to be downloaded.
> So I am a little confused by your observation. Do you have the specific
> library it is downloading and the message it produced?
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> -Steve
>
>
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> Bradley Lowekamp
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> Medical Science and Computing for
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> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>
> National Library of Medicine
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> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov
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