[vtk-developers] VTK Examples broken outside of tree

[Bill Lorensen]

vtkMy also works fine. I created a directory. Copied all the source
into it. Made a build tree. Ran cmake, and everything built?

I can't get the same thing to happen in vtkLocal, by my changes should
not have affected that?

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> vtkLocal is different I guess. That one does not build. Let me see if
> I can figure out what is wrong.
>
> Bill
>
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oops, I just tried Modelling outside the VTK trees and it works fine.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Bill Lorensen <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I remember the problems occurred when I tried to add tests.
>>>
>>> I also thought I had tested the independent building, but it appears I didn't
>>>
>>> If a revert will work, fine. Go for it.
>>>
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> On 8/23/2010 11:07 AM, Bill Lorensen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't agree that it should be reverted. I have to check my notes to
>>>>> remember the complications I had when adding new examples. First. let
>>>>> me fix vtkLocal. Then we can have more discussions.
>>>>
>>>> My point is that vtkLocal is currently broken only because examples
>>>> are not tested on the dashboard as outside projects anymore.  It took
>>>> a total of zero commits past your change for an example to be broken
>>>> in a way that the previous approach was intended to prevent.  That is
>>>> why we must revert the change.
>>>>
>>>> If you have trouble adding an example then we should look at how
>>>> to make it easier in the context of the old approach.  Building any
>>>> examples in the tree is not an acceptable solution for the reasons
>>>> I've already described.
>>>>
>>>> -Brad
>>>>
>>>
>>
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