[vtkusers] cvs update / cmake build problems fails the 2nd time

Dominik Szczerba domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch
Sun Jun 17 04:25:40 EDT 2007


I have only a passive knowledge of CVS. I didn't use/know -d. Thanks for 
the hint, will try next time.
- Dominik

Bryn Lloyd wrote:
> Hi Dominik,
> 
> Did you write "cvs update", or "cvs update -d"?
> 
> If the "-d" option is not used new files will be added, but new 
> directories not. Each directory in the Wrapping/Python tree has a 
> __init_.py file. Maybe it was not found because, the directory was not 
> added ...
> 
> Hope I could help.
> 
> Cheers
> Bryn
> 
> 
> 
> Dominik Szczerba wrote:
>> Thanks for the hint about the dashboard. Note however, that a clear 
>> checkout succeeded to build, it was the update that failed. So my 
>> point is either I am using CVS in a wrong way (simply update instead 
>> of checkout?) or the cvs tree is not consistent (?)
>> - Dominik
>>
>> Andrew Maclean wrote:
>>> You must check the state of the dashboard before doing an update. 
>>> There is no guarantee that all the code is stable in the CVS. It is 
>>> development code.
>>>  
>>> Andrew
>>>  
>>>
>>>  
>>> On 6/17/07, *Dominik Szczerba* <domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch 
>>> <mailto:domi at vision.ee.ethz.ch>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi,
>>>
>>>     Second time I encountered problems while rebuilding VTK after 
>>> updating
>>>     from CVS. Last time I dont remember what the error was, this time it
>>>     failed on python bindings (missing __init.py somewhare at the 
>>> very very
>>>     end). Removing both the source and build directories, checking out a
>>>     clean tree and building from scratch fixed both problems. But is VTK
>>>     not
>>>     meant to be updated via 'cvs ... update'? Did I miss anything?
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Dominik
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>>>     Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
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Dominik Szczerba, Ph.D.
Computer Vision Lab CH-8092 Zurich
http://www.vision.ee.ethz.ch/~domi



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