Re: ginkgocadx ...The good, the bad, and the ugly
Hi,
just wanted to give you the heads up on how this goes:
The good:
I got it to build and it runs, thumbnails now work, and also the
loading of the borked dicom file (thanks to Matheu's patch for GDCM).
The bad:
This was all done on Gentoo, because the current versions of VTK and
GDCM don't cut it:
* VTK < 6.2.1 has a bug that makes ginkgocadx crash when creating the
thumbnails.
* GDCM-2.6.3 + patch can't currently be build in a clean unstable,
because the build dependencies pull in conflicting versions of
libopenmpi (1.6 and 1.10).
The ugly:
The ginkgocadx code is a mess, threading is poorly implemented with the
result that at exit the program either crashes or hangs. Luckily gcc
now implements a thread-checker that gives some hints what is going
wrong, but resolving this threading issue will still be difficult.
--
This means we'll have to wait until the gdcm can be build again, and
I'll ask the VTK maintainer what he think about uploading either vtk
-6.2.1, or vtk-6.3. vtk-7.0 is just around the corner, and both (vtk
-6.3 and vtk-7.0) will need to pass through NEW ...
Best,
Gert
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