[vtk-developers] Note to all dashboard maintainers: please wi pe out your build dirs (or cache)

[Blezek, Daniel J (Research)]

Ken, Sebastien,

  You can't be serious about wiping out CMakeCache.txt each night.  This file is _the_ single most
important file in all of VTK!  Each GE nightly starts with a make clean, or the equivalent under
Windows.  I know the clean process isn't perfect, but it's a much better solution than trying to
figure out how to get CMake to correctly find everything each night across several platforms all with
different configurations of compilers, Tcl, Python, etc...

  As for non-cleaning builds: the continuous builds should accomidate non-clean builds.  When they
get stuck, or something changes that requires a clean, it can be done manually.

-dan

--
Daniel Blezek, Ph.D.
blezek at crd.ge.com
Visualization and Computer Vision Lab, Imaging Technologies
GE Global Research Center


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Martin [mailto:ken.martin at kitware.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:28 PM
> To: Sebastien BARRE; vtk-developers at public.kitware.com
> Subject: RE: [vtk-developers] Note to all dashboard 
> maintainers: please
> wipe out your build dirs (or cache)
> 
> 
> Many developers do not wipe out their directories every night. If we
> only test clean builds VTK eventually will not work without a clean
> build (I have seen this many times). We must maintain some dashboards
> that do not do a clean every night. So please, edit the cache to turn
> on the option Sebastien mentioned for the dashboard, but do not change
> all the dashboards to do a clean build.
> 
> Thanks
> Ken
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: vtk-developers-admin at public.kitware.com
> > [mailto:vtk-developers-admin at public.kitware.com]On Behalf
> > Of Sebastien
> > BARRE
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 3:14 PM
> > To: vtk-developers at public.kitware.com
> > Subject: [vtk-developers] Note to all dashboard
> > maintainers: please wipe
> > out your build dirs (or cache)
> >
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I've the feeling that some (or many) of the dashboards are
> > not set up
> > correctly.
> >
> > Can you please check that each night you wipe out either
> > the whole build
> > dir or the CMakeCache.txt file.
> >
> > Here is a example. The VTK_USE_FREETYPE option (i.e. build
> > Utilities/freetype|ftgl) was defaulting to OFF a couple of
> > days while I was
> > going from one computer to another to manually test it
> > (Win/Cygwin, HP/UX,
> > Sun, Solaris, Irix, Linux so far).
> >
> > Yesterday I set the default value to ON to enable it on all
> > platforms. Yet,
> > only 5 or 6 dashboards built the libs. I suspect that the
> > others builds
> > still have this option set to OFF because the cache file
> > has not been deleted.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> > Sebastien Barre
> >
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