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

[David Cole]

Hmmmmm.... so why don't these show up as dashboard errors I wonder....?


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Amy Squillacote <ahs at cfdrc.com> wrote:

> 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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