[vtk-developers] VTK Examples broken outside of tree

Bill Lorensen bill.lorensen at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 10:48:02 EDT 2010


I'll look into it. I thought the examples would still build outside
the tree after my changes. I thought I had verified that.

Bill

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> This commit you made in December:
>
>  http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commitdiff;h=dffe6e6d
>
> broke examples like vtkLocal such that they do not build anything
> when built outside of the VTK tree.  It also undid a purposeful
> feature from
>
>  http://vtk.org/gitweb?p=VTK.git;a=commitdiff;h=fe7fc7e9
>
> which was intended to ensure that all examples *always* build
> correctly outside of the tree.  Before that we had way to many
> problems with examples that only worked in-tree and failed when
> copied outside VTK.
>
> Why was this change (un)made?
>
> Thanks,
> -Brad
>



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