[vtk-developers] Limit output of VTK wrappers

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Like you, I only use the output when debugging.  However, I find I use
it often (pretty much any time the wrapper fails) to narrow down the
lines of code that caused the wrapper to fail (which is usually between
the last successfully parsed function and the line reported by the
wrapper code).

Is there a simple change to the wrapper code that can print out the last
successfully parsed function in addition to the line in which the
failure occurred?  If that was in place I would have no need for the
verbose output.

-Ken

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Cedilnik [mailto:andy.cedilnik at kitware.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 9:24 AM
> To: Moreland, Kenneth
> Cc: Brad King; vtk-developers
> Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] Limit output of VTK wrappers
> 
> Hi Ken,
> 
> In theory yes, but I don't think it is worth investing time 
> to redesign wrappers to take an extra argument. I guess we 
> could change the build of the wrappers by putting an #ifdef 
> into the vtkParse.y. The main question is do you care about 
> the output? Do you rely on the output? The wrappers do work 
> exactly the same, so if you do not care about the output, 
> then I would say let's just leave it out.
> 
> The only time I find the output useful is when debugging and 
> even then rarely. Please if this is not the case for you (or 
> anybody else), share your thought.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
>        Andy
> 
> Moreland, Kenneth wrote:
> 
> >Could this also be a CMake option?
> >  
> >
> >>>To see the second output you can run make the following way:
> >>>
> >>>DEBUG=1 make
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>or
> >>
> >>   make DEBUG=1
> >>
> >>for more platforms.  I suggest we rename it to
> >>VTK_WRAPPING_OUTPUT=1 to be a bit more specific and avoid the 
> >>namespace violation.
> >>
> >>-Brad
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