[vtk-developers] VTK test failures

[Moreland, Kenneth]

Well, as long as the problem is fixed I will rest easy.

-Ken

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mathieu Coursolle [mailto:mcoursolle at rogue-research.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:55 AM
> To: Moreland, Kenneth; vtk-developpers
> Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] VTK test failures
> 
> Hi,
> 
> First, to be able to build PPC only on an intel machine, you will need
> the latest CVS cmake I think.
> 
> From what I can tell, the problem was there for a long time ago, and we
> were
> just lucky it did not cause any tests to fail.
> 
> I don't understand completely the fix, but that commit seems to solve
> the issues:
> 
> <http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Utilities/kwsys/
> ProcessUNIX.c?rev=1.71&view=log>
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mathieu
> 
> 
> >I'm trying to replicate this problem on my Intel Mac, and have so far
> >been unsuccessful.  It may be that I'm not compiling PPC binaries
> >correctly.  How do you compile as PPC binaries and verify the type of
> >binaries being used?
> >
> >Also, I noticed that on today's dashboard, all of the tests that started
> >failing on the 8th are now working again.  Why is that?
> >
> >-Ken
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mathieu Coursolle [mailto:mcoursolle at rogue-research.com]
> >> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:47 PM
> >> To: Mathieu Coursolle; Moreland, Kenneth; vtk-developpers
> >> Subject: Re: [vtk-developers] VTK test failures
> >>
> >> After some investigations, it seems to fail when built on PPC as well.
> >>
> >> Here are the 3 configurations I tested:
> >>
> >> Build as Intel, On intel : PASS
> >> Build as PPC, On intel : FAIL
> >> Build as PPC, On PPC : FAIL
> >>
> >> Any one noticed that failure too?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Mathieu
> >>
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >Since 2008-01-08, some new test failures appeared on one of our
> >> dashboard:
> >> ><http://www.vtk.org/Testing/Sites/RogueResearch4/Mac10.5-VTKCocoa-gcc-
> >> >dbg-rosetta/20080108-0300-Nightly/Test.html>
> >> >
> >> >I was able to track down the cause to the following changes:
> >> >
> >> ><http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/
> >> >vtkColorTransferFunction.cxx.diff?cvsroot=VTK&r1=1.72&r2=1.73>
> >> ><http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Filtering/
> >> >vtkColorTransferFunction.h.diff?cvsroot=VTK&r1=1.54&r2=1.55>
> >> >
> >> >This dashboard is build as Big endian (ppc) on a little endian system
> >> >(intel), so it could be an endianness problem.
> >> >
> >> >Does any body knows why this change is causing those new test
> failures?
> >> >
> >> >Thanks.
> >> >
> >> >Mathieu
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >--
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> >> >Mathieu Coursolle                   mcoursolle at rogue-research.com
> >> >Rogue Research                      www.rogue-research.com
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