[vtkusers] VTK Build Error on Ubuntu 8.04: TCL Conversion Error

[Amy Squillacote]

Hi David,

I'm seeing similar behavior on my Windows machine. I have a CVS checkout 
of VTK from May 5, 2008. I'm using the Visual C++ 2005 Express compiler. 
I've turned on wrapping for Tcl (v. 8.5), Java (v. 1.5.0_13), and Python 
(v. 2.5); none of these are development versions, and I'm using 
pre-compiled versions of all of them.

I get the error message the John reported in Filtering (same test), but 
I also get an error message for most of the other VTK kits: Rendering - 
assembly.tcl, VolumeRendering - gaussian.tcl, IO - dem.tcl, Imaging - 
ContinuousClose2D.tcl, Hybrid - 3DMorph.tcl, Parallel - RectOutline.tcl, 
Filtering - closedSplines.tcl, Graphics - AutomaticPlaneGeneration.tcl. 
For each of these kits, this is the 1st test listed in the 
Testing/Tcl/CMakeLists.txt file. This was a fresh compile. I saw this 
behavior on an earlier build of VTK, but it didn't stop me from installing.

I just hit "Compile" in Visual Studio to see if a 2nd build (without 
starting from a fresh build tree) would make any difference, but I still 
see the same results.

- Amy

David Cole wrote:
> If you just want a quick workaround to avoid this particular problem, 
> you can comment out the "closedSplines" test in the 
> VTK/Filtering/Testing/Python/CMakeLists.txt file. Use a "#" character 
> to comment out the line that says "closedSplines".
>
> There must be something unique about your system or your python 
> installation that triggers this issue, because we do not see this on 
> the VTK dashboards that have python wrapping turned on... Do you have 
> a development build of python on this machine? Anything else unique?
>
>
> HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 1:38 AM, John Eke <tonee47 at yahoo.com 
> <mailto:tonee47 at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I am trying to build VTK on Ubuntu 8.04 but it fails with the
>     following error:
>
>     [ 98%] Converting Tcl test
>
>     Converting
>     /usr/local/VTKsource/Filtering/Testing/Tcl/closedSplines.tcl
>     Conversion failed!
>     make[2]: *** [Filtering/Testing/Python/conversion_complete] Error 1
>     make[1]: ***
>     [Filtering/Testing/Python/CMakeFiles/FilteringPythonTests.dir/all]
>     Error 2
>     make: *** [all] Error 2
>
>     I'm not really sure what the problem is. Actually I'm clueless.
>     And it wont let me make install if that step doesn't pass, so I'm
>     literally stuck.
>
>     Help please
>
>
>
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