[Paraview-developers] [EXTERNAL] ParaView build issue

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Alan,

FYI, we are planning to have discussions to to tie some of the loose
ends with the ExternalData stuff soon. So these issues will be cleared
up in near future.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:49 AM, David Thompson
<david.thompson at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
>> Seeing that there are somewhere around 1700 files, mind creating and sending me a tarball?
>
> I will if you like, but it won't stay up to date.
>
>   curl -o index.html http://vtk.org/files/ExternalData/MD5/
>   grep 'td><a href="[A-Za-z0-9]' index.html | sed -e 's_.*a href="\([^"]*\)".*_\1_g' > files
>   for f in `cat files`; do
>     curl -# -O http://vtk.org/files/ExternalData/MD5/$f
>   done
>
> The above is a hack and will always download every file. Probably best to use CMake to download and refresh.
>
>         David
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: David Thompson [mailto:david.thompson at kitware.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 7:26 PM
>> To: Scott, W Alan
>> Cc: paraview-developers at paraview.org
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Paraview-developers] ParaView build issue
>>
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>>> Well, drat.  If I don't include the error, that doesn't help much.  Drat.
>>
>> Random sampling is good for many things, but not debugging. :-)
>>
>> The errors are from the switch to how repository-external data (test input data and baseline images) is maintained. You should be able to prevent the download attempts by putting all the files from
>>
>>       http://vtk.org/files/ExternalData/MD5
>>
>> into the ExternalData directory inside your VTK build directory (or a build-tree-external local store). See
>>
>>       http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/Git/Develop/Data#Local_Store
>>
>> for more information.
>>
>>       David
>>
>>> [ 79%] Generating
>>> /projects/viz/paraview/ParaView/4.1.0-alan/Linux-eng-sci-rhel6-x86_64/
>>> Build/ExternalData/VTK/Testing/Data/CityPopulationsUTF8.txt
>>> -- Fetching "http://midas3.kitware.com/midas/api/rest?method=midas.bitstream.download&checksum=6424e2a51d932a5c93c361c14c3c4c49&algorithm=MD5"
>>> -- Fetching "http://www.vtk.org/files/ExternalData/MD5/6424e2a51d932a5c93c361c14c3c4c49"
>>> CMake Error at /projects/viz/paraview/src/ParaView/4.1.0-alan/ParaView4/VTK/CMake/ExternalData.cmake:735 (message):
>>>  Object MD5=6424e2a51d932a5c93c361c14c3c4c49 not found at:
>>>
>>>    http://midas3.kitware.com/midas/api/rest?method=midas.bitstream.download&checksum=6424e2a51d932a5c93c361c14c3c4c49&algorithm=MD5 ("couldn't connect to server")
>>>
>>> http://www.vtk.org/files/ExternalData/MD5/6424e2a51d932a5c93c361c14c3c4c49 ("couldn't connect to server") Call Stack (most recent call first):
>>>
>>> /projects/viz/paraview/src/ParaView/4.1.0-alan/ParaView4/VTK/CMake/Ext
>>> ernalData.cmake:757 (_ExternalData_download_object)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Note the line that says "couldn't connect to server"
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> _____________________________________________
>>> From: Scott, W Alan
>>> Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2013 4:52 PM
>>> To: paraview-developers at paraview.org
>>> Subject: ParaView build issue
>>>
>>>
>>> I am having an issue with ParaView builds.  Any thoughts?  Note that many of the machines we build with are behind firewalls, and cannot see the internet.  In other words, trying to get to kitware.com could be/ is a very large issue.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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