irclog2html for #brlcad on 20050126

00:04.39 brlcad ar cru .libs/libpng.a example.o ... pngwtran.o pngwutil.o~ranlib .libs/libpng.a for example
00:05.03 brlcad ~ww
00:05.07 ibot There is no such thing as the wrong window, just wrong people
00:30.49 jano ergh
00:30.54 jano i want to go take more pictures.
00:30.56 jano :D
02:16.36 *** join/#brlcad EricWilhelm (~ewilhelm@adsl-208-191-39-126.dsl.tpkaks.swbell.net)
02:45.28 *** join/#brlcad tjyang (~Administr@c-67-175-74-12.client.comcast.net)
03:50.27 starseeker brlcad - did full build of current cvs - no luck :-(
03:51.40 starseeker talk about an annoying problem
04:09.13 brlcad starseeker: looking at that now
04:09.19 brlcad looks like a different issue that the others
05:52.07 CIA-6 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/acinclude.m4: update libtool.m4 source to 1.5.10's. apply s/~$RANLIB/ ; $RANLIB/ fix so that libtool 1.5 on os x doesn't choke on the ~
07:20.52 CIA-6 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * 10brlcad/autogen.sh: fix encounters with version numbers that don't have a patch number (e.g. libtool 1.5), also fix version checks to actually stop checking minor/patch numbers if our major/minor are greater than required.
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15:29.23 brlcad starseeker: made some changes that hopefully fix the sandbox problem..
15:30.40 brlcad starseeker: a cvs status on configure.ac should show 14.24 when you are up to date
15:37.06 Nidhoggr I couldn't find my dev cd last night. you'd think if you could download xcode online, you could download the x11 sdk.
15:45.19 brlcad oof
15:45.29 brlcad Nidhoggr: looking now, i've got that disc here
15:45.37 Nidhoggr cool, thanks.
15:49.50 Nidhoggr no wonder brlcad is so pokey.
15:49.57 Nidhoggr he keeps getting poked.
15:50.02 jano everyone poke!
15:50.15 jano awee
15:50.29 Nidhoggr eek!
15:52.44 brlcad ~poke jano
15:52.46 ibot but then who will poke the pokers, brlcad?
15:54.35 jano that's right
15:59.11 brlcad Nidhoggr: uploaded to secretplace in my home as X11SDK.pkg.tar.gz
15:59.43 Nidhoggr thank you very much, brlcad !!!
16:01.33 brlcad heh, thank me when it compiles
16:01.46 brlcad damn me before then
16:01.54 Nidhoggr :)
16:30.12 Nidhoggr brlcad: any estimate how long to compile on 1.3 ghz powerbook g4 with 1 gb ram?
16:30.25 Nidhoggr it's doing pretty good so far.
16:36.14 brlcad half hour or so would be my guess
16:36.20 Nidhoggr cool
16:41.42 Nidhoggr make completes, but make install errors. :)
16:41.53 brlcad ahh, yes.. cvs up ;)
16:42.09 brlcad dang.. forgot to mention that.. *blush*
16:42.09 Nidhoggr hrm. I'm using the tarball you sent.
16:42.12 Nidhoggr hang on.
16:42.31 brlcad ahh, yes .. same problem on the tarball
16:42.48 Nidhoggr can I just fix the ~ranlib thing?
16:43.24 brlcad yes
16:43.32 Nidhoggr it's doing ~ranlib instead of ; ranlib
16:43.57 brlcad replace all "~" in acinclude.m4 with " ; "
16:45.06 brlcad perl -pi -e "s/~/ ; /" acinclude.m4
16:46.01 brlcad er, oop s/~/ ; /g
16:49.37 Nidhoggr do I need to do "make" again, etc? or will it work with just make install?
16:52.53 brlcad might as well make; make install
16:52.56 brlcad just don't make clean ;)
16:57.12 Nidhoggr something wacked out and I biffed dir and untarred again. re-running perl command, etc.
17:39.54 Nidhoggr wow. make install takes almost as long as make. :)
17:43.59 brlcad yep
17:44.19 brlcad gets fun when I compile on the altix and it takes only 2 minutes to compile
17:44.42 Nidhoggr now how do I check out what it can do? :)
17:44.43 brlcad yet make install takes like 5 minutes .. make clean takes seemingly forever too
17:44.57 Nidhoggr nod
17:45.08 brlcad http://brlcad.org Documents section .. the overview and then intro to mged are good places to start
17:45.27 Nidhoggr cool.
17:47.41 *** join/#brlcad Pimpinulla (~frank@p508215A4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de)
17:59.51 brlcad hello Pimpinulla
18:00.03 Pimpinulla hey
18:00.19 Pimpinulla what was brl-cad's license before?
18:01.34 Pimpinulla looks interesting, never heard of it before
18:01.42 brlcad it's actually always been fairly open
18:02.05 brlcad you could get the sourcecode or binaries and make your own modifications
18:02.10 brlcad very gplesque
18:02.33 brlcad but .. you had to fill out an agreement form, fax/mail it back in and wait for a license "key"
18:02.39 Pimpinulla i always wondered about the origin of your nick ;)
18:02.51 Pimpinulla ic
18:02.55 brlcad that "key" was a decryption key that allowed you to decrypt and install
18:03.12 brlcad and the filing paperwork usually took a week or two
18:03.24 Nidhoggr just ran the bench stuff. kinda fun.
18:03.27 brlcad international requests had to go through security screenings, etc
18:03.29 Pimpinulla is it your project?
18:03.52 brlcad i'm one of the maintainers now
18:03.52 Pimpinulla oh, some kind of military?
18:04.13 brlcad but I didn't start it -- the package has been around for over 20 years
18:04.21 brlcad written by Mike Muuss originally
18:05.03 Pimpinulla looks like i have to give it a try :)
18:05.05 brlcad he's the guy that wrote "ping"
18:05.25 Pimpinulla oh...well...
18:05.28 brlcad as well as ttcp and several aspects of the original tcp stack and bsd internals
18:06.09 Pimpinulla a real pioneer
18:06.49 brlcad he was a brilliant man
18:07.11 Pimpinulla was...
18:07.15 Pimpinulla ic
18:07.16 brlcad a real honor to work with .. had a passion for just about everything he did, very smart
18:07.33 brlcad yeah, he died in an accident several years ago
18:07.55 Pimpinulla and you worked with him?
18:08.39 Pimpinulla you're not that old yourself, no? not 30 yet iirc?
18:09.12 brlcad i worked with him for about a year
18:09.37 brlcad he was the reason I came to work here .. wanted to be his "apprentice" of sorts
18:10.10 Pimpinella where do you work?
18:10.11 brlcad as he was one of the few people on the planet that I'd actually call a wizard
18:11.37 Pimpinella there're never enough ppl of that sore
18:11.41 Pimpinella there're never enough ppl of that sort
18:14.41 Pimpinella later
18:16.36 brlcad cya
18:31.29 jano hmm
22:06.16 starseeker preparing to do new ebuild test now...
22:07.43 *** join/#brlcad tjyang (~Administr@c-67-175-74-12.client.comcast.net)
22:20.58 starseeker and heeeere we go!
22:47.30 brlcad weeee.. ;)
22:47.54 starseeker stilllll building - nothing outlasts the brlcad build!
22:49.30 brlcad parallel builds are fun ;)
22:50.00 brlcad a 12 node altix is the fastest I've seen to date
22:50.35 brlcad compiled in almost exactly 2 minutes with default options
22:50.43 brlcad took longer to install or do a make clean
22:52.09 brlcad altix isn't a cluster, it's smp
22:52.11 starseeker build st-build complete ;-)
22:52.24 brlcad soo. it worked?!
22:52.35 starseeker no no, simulating a build on an altix ;-)
22:52.45 brlcad ahh heh
22:52.51 starseeker my machine's a wimp by modern standards - probably another 10 minutes or so yet
22:53.41 brlcad autogen.sh takes over two minutes on my fast home machine
22:53.53 starseeker I believe it.
22:54.37 starseeker I need to check out a new AMD64+1Gig ram+2 Raptor hard drives
22:55.03 starseeker when I get money, of course
22:55.35 starseeker BRL-CAD Release 7.0.4, Build 20050126
22:55.35 starseeker Elapsed compilation time: 29 minutes, 52 seconds
22:55.35 starseeker Elapsed time since configuration: 31 minutes, 17 seconds
22:55.41 starseeker now the moment of truth...
22:57.45 starseeker Did you see the announcements? OpenSolaris is coming, and EROS is now Coyotos
22:57.52 brlcad yep
22:58.26 brlcad most isn't
22:58.44 brlcad we were _very_ close to going with a different OSI-approved license
22:58.51 brlcad that would have been non-gpl compatible
22:59.07 starseeker True, but can you imagine a Solaris with the strength of the Linux kernel integrated into it? It would change the face of computing
22:59.16 starseeker brlcad: Can't say I blame you
22:59.34 brlcad I talked with the gnu legal aids for several weeks trying to figure out what it would take to make it compatible
22:59.46 starseeker heh - bet that was fun
22:59.53 brlcad not really
23:00.13 starseeker Tim Daly got so sick of licensing issues during the Axiom discussions
23:00.31 starseeker and some of the most annoying threads in Maxima history were about our little export laws notice
23:00.50 starseeker The problem is, it IS that important. Lawyers rule the world :-(
23:00.57 brlcad especially their position that was being taken.. very much "if it's not gnu, it shouldn't be used" regardless of the fact that at the time we could NOT use the gpl
23:01.24 brlcad the gpl is going nowhere in government because it's a license that's based on copyright law
23:01.39 starseeker Yes, they basically piss off everyone who isn't one of the faithful
23:01.45 brlcad the government cannot claim copyright on their works, they can only be assigned copyright
23:01.57 starseeker Oh, good point.
23:02.16 starseeker But if they can't claim copyright, doesn't that make them public domain?
23:02.27 starseeker except where export restrictions come into play?
23:02.30 brlcad not in the least
23:02.45 starseeker weird
23:03.04 brlcad they can still be confidential, unreleaseable, limited distribution, or under contract
23:03.20 brlcad take brl-cad's old agreement for example
23:03.28 brlcad it was technically a contractual agreement
23:03.35 starseeker Hmm. Good point
23:03.45 brlcad the osi-approved NOSA is a contractual agreement
23:04.00 brlcad it's the first osi-approved license that is based on contract law instead of copyright law
23:04.23 starseeker Ah. But I suppose that fact itself makes it GPL incompatible?
23:04.30 brlcad which is exactly why NASA made it.. they couldn't use the gnu licenses without extreme difficulty and in some cases impossibilities
23:05.02 brlcad no it doesn't .. the incompatibility has to do with subtleties in the redistribution requirements
23:05.11 starseeker ah
23:05.32 brlcad heh
23:05.34 starseeker no wonder you didn't like talking to GNU - they're the DEFINITION of anal retentive when it comes to stuff like that
23:05.43 starseeker SUCCESS - NO SANDBOX ERRORS!!!!
23:05.52 brlcad WOOT!
23:05.56 brlcad ~starseeker++
23:06.23 brlcad excellent.. then i'll post up a 7.0.4-2 tonight
23:07.29 brlcad i didn't mind talking to gnu folks.. but they weren't very helpful in our situation
23:08.02 starseeker I which they'd get used to that situation - there are many incredible tools that the government could relase if it were so inclined
23:08.23 starseeker mged starts up - what's a good test to run to make sure this sucker's working?
23:08.39 brlcad heh, if mged started, that's a pretty big test
23:09.15 starseeker Will I need to leave the running of autogen.sh in the ebuild, or will the tarball be ready for configure?
23:09.15 brlcad mm.. can try to open one of the .g files in db/
23:09.19 brlcad and raytrace it
23:09.32 brlcad the tarball will be ready for configure
23:10.01 starseeker let's see where the db dir went...
23:10.35 starseeker hmm - not installed apparently
23:10.44 starseeker no matter - where's that cvs dir?
23:11.47 starseeker I don't see any .g files in db/ are they generated in the build?
23:13.06 brlcad db is not installed
23:13.29 brlcad the .g's are made during make
23:14.00 brlcad if not, you can "asc2g havoc.asc havoc.g"
23:14.09 brlcad that will convert it
23:14.17 brlcad moss.asc is nice and simple
23:14.31 brlcad havoc is mildly detailed enough to be interesting
23:15.06 starseeker ok, here we go...
23:15.59 starseeker it opened - a helicopter?
23:16.06 starseeker how do I raytrace?
23:16.49 starseeker hmm
23:17.09 starseeker brlcad: should there be a picture by default in the Graphics Window when I open this file?
23:18.15 brlcad nope
23:19.03 starseeker Well, I got something that looks like a helicopter - how do I tell it to raytrace?
23:19.32 starseeker Oh, nevermind
23:20.03 starseeker somehow, by accident, I got something. But when I clicked the dismiss button on the raytracer before the render was done, things froze
23:22.12 brlcad there's a raytrace control panel
23:22.16 starseeker otherwise, it's WORKING!!! WOOT!
23:22.17 brlcad on file, iirc
23:22.23 starseeker found it :)
23:22.29 brlcad yeah, it's working ;) excellent
23:22.48 Nidhoggr yeah.. I changed a drawing, and re-ran raytrace, and it locked up the process. :)
23:23.01 tjyang brlcad, is your solaris box back online ?
23:24.06 brlcad tjyang: it was a hardware failure .. it'll be a while
23:24.11 starseeker brlcad - what are you going to call the tarball?
23:24.24 starseeker brlcad-7.0.4-r2.tar.bz2?
23:24.36 jano let's call it hubert
23:24.39 starseeker brlcad-7.0.4-2.tar.bz2?
23:24.44 jano hubert.tarball
23:24.45 jano :)
23:24.54 starseeker Nah, I'd cut it down to bert
23:25.06 starseeker bert the cad
23:25.22 brlcad tjyang: pastebin the sys_errlist error, and I can try a fix here in the meantime
23:25.42 brlcad with a coupling cam package called ernie
23:26.23 tjyang brlcad, I will try to find ther error message.
23:26.56 brlcad starseeker: not sure.. good question
23:29.31 brlcad starseeker: probably the latter brlcad-7.0.4-2.tar.bz2
23:30.19 brlcad although sf stats are down
23:30.23 brlcad so might just replace existing
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23:35.24 tjyang brlcad, I have the error message when compiling into.c on solaris using gcc. what should I do now ? can post a few lines here ?
23:36.04 starseeker brlcad - if you can do that, it would be easiest
23:36.42 starseeker althought I told the gentoo bug it would be revision two, so if you change the 7.0.4 tarball out let me know and I'll fix it
23:43.13 tjyang brlcad, while waiting your response, I googled around with the error message and found this link "http://www.radiance-online.org/pipermail/radiance-general/2002-June/000283.html"
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23:50.42 tjyang brlcad, do you still need the error message from into.c ?
23:55.52 tjyang into.c compiled fine on rh linux but in rh linux /usr/include/bit/sys_errlist.h it says "/* sys_errlist and sys_nerr are deprecated. Use strerror instead. */"
23:58.31 brlcad being deprecated is fine.. that's a warning
23:58.41 brlcad you saw an actual error, though?
23:59.14 tjyang yes, I still have the log

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