[Insight-users] What are the ._vnl_*.cxx files?

[Luis Ibanez]

Hi Brad,

Thanks for letting us know.

That will certainly be a very annoying feature, if Safari takes the 
liberty of generating .cxx files...    :-/

Hopefully they will provide some way of disabling this feature...


Would it have helped to package ITK in a different way ?


     Thanks


        Luis


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Bradley Lowekamp wrote:
> Hello Luis,
> 
> The "._" in the prefix is an important part. After looking at it again, 
> it appears to be a binary file that was some how generated because I 
> downloaded the tar ball with Safari. There actually appear to be one for 
> every file extracted from the tar ball. I think it must be a security 
> thing. I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, must be a new 
> "feature". And I am running " cmake version 2.4-patch 7".
> 
> My guess would be that the CMake is trying to get *.cxx file for that 
> directory and it a added in these files which aren't suppose to be there. 
> 
> I just deleted the offending ones and it is working and passed the tests.
> 
> Thanks,
> Brad
> 
> On Mar 27, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Brad,
>>
>>
>>             These files contain C++ code.
>>
>>
>> The files contain explicit instantiations of VNL templated classes.
>>
>>
>>         1) What platform are you using for building ITK ?
>>
>>         2) What tarball did you downloaded ?
>>            What ITK version ?
>>            What tarball extension ?
>>
>>         3) What version of CMake are you using ?
>>
>>         3) What compiler are you using ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Please let us know
>>
>>
>>  Thanks
>>
>>
>>    Luis
>>
>>
>>
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>> Bradley Lowekamp wrote:
>>
>>> I just downloaded the latest tar-balls yesterday and tried building 
>>> ITK, and it's choking on some odd files. There are down in 
>>> vxl/core/*/*/Templates/ and of the form ._vnl*-.cxx. The build 
>>> process was choking on them. They appear to be binary files, and not 
>>> CXX code. So I just deleted them and it seem to build right up 
>>> (rebuilding now with tests). What's up with these files, should they 
>>> be there? Is CMake suppose to exclude them? Perhaps my CMake is too old?
>>
>>> ========================================================
>>
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>>
>>> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>>
>>> National Library of Medicine blowekamp at mail.nih.gov 
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> 
> Bradley Lowekamp  
> 
> Lockheed Martin Contractor for
> 
> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
> 
> National Library of Medicine 
> 
> blowekamp at mail.nih.gov <mailto:blowekamp at mail.nih.gov>
> 
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