IRC log for #brlcad on 20100221

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00:05.15 Atkins I'm about done with the mged tutorial (using 7.10.4 on Ubuntu). I had to compile 7.16.6 to get a working version of Archer, but that seg faults when trying to open or start a new database. Is there a debug cmd or log file I could inspect, or is Archer known to do this on Ubuntu (9.04).
00:07.40 ``Erik should be a file with the words 'mged' and 'bomb' in the name in the directory you started mged in
00:08.05 ``Erik like mged-12345-bomb.log
00:08.25 Atkins Yes, there is indeed... Thank you.
00:09.06 ``Erik np
00:19.50 Atkins It appears to be a null "bu_mapped_file" pointer in bomb.c:186. This showed up during my compile (Bug ID: 2953632) and I followed the advice to add --disable-strict to my compilation options. Anyone with advice, or should I just ignore Archer for the time being?
00:22.35 ``Erik archer is very alpha, I'd avoid using it myself
00:23.51 Atkins Ah... What little I saw looked nice. I hope they get the bugs worked out. I guess it's back to mged. (Thanks!)
00:26.08 ``Erik archer is supposed to be the replacement for mged, once it works sufficiently
00:27.41 Atkins I add my vote for a replacement to mged :-) It has a very unappealing interface (I'm trying to tone down the font's as we speak..).
00:28.47 louipc it should be more console based :D
00:30.48 Atkins Console? Like typing? Old school for me. I find GUI based interfaces easier to come back to after letting my design projects stew for a few years... err.. months.
00:31.36 louipc well, it could have ncurses
00:31.41 louipc and stuff
00:31.47 louipc y'know
00:32.10 ``Erik mged -c <-- ftw
00:32.32 Atkins I would be happy if I could just tone down the bevel a bit. Any way to do that?
00:32.47 ``Erik bevel on what? O.o
00:33.17 ``Erik all the GUI stuff in mged is TK, I d'no if TK has tweaks, but it looks a LOT better using, say, aquaTK on a mac... :D
00:33.30 Atkins The bevel on the Gui... it looks to be about 5 pixels.
00:34.04 Atkins Must be harsh on a Mac... Not to pretty on Compiz...
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01:15.43 Jonimus To any devs here, thank you for continuing the awesomeness that is brlcad
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01:43.27 digilord Hello all. Trying to compile 7.16.6. http://pastebin.com/m5ddff84c are the errors I am getting. I am on Ubuntu Karmic 64bit
01:43.39 digilord Can anyone help?
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01:45.53 fredcylinder Se ha solicitado una sesión de mensajería musical. Por favor, seleccione el icono de MM para aceptarla.
01:46.18 louipc qué?
01:46.33 fredcylinder que?
01:47.29 louipc I dunno
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02:12.13 brlcad Jonimus: thanks for the encouragement!
02:15.15 brlcad ``Erik: not sure if it's the same, but it was an object name .. my guess is it's the diff between our group/comb and primitive names
02:19.01 brlcad Atkins: archer and mged are basically being merged .. but that's a work-in-progress -- hope to have an official alpha in a few months, just a few lose ends to tie up
02:19.26 brlcad the crash is something recent/new, and probably trivial to fix
02:19.56 brlcad if you can post that archer crash log somewhere where we can get at it, could provide helpful
02:21.22 brlcad and yes, you can customize the bevel and fonts .. but I'll have to dig into the widgets to find the magic incantation for you in a couple hours (dinner time!)
02:21.54 brlcad I recall wanting/doing the exact same thing when I first started learning mged.. the guy that designed the GUI has horrible eyesight :)
02:22.11 brlcad once you set your defaults, you kinda forget out it
02:23.00 brlcad digilord: you need to install the Xi library/headers (probably xorg-xi-dev or something similar)
02:24.38 Jonimus Oh btw the lastest release does not build against the newest libpng
02:24.49 brlcad fredcylinder said: "A musical mail session has been requested. Please, select the MM icon to accept it." <-- undoubtedly some stupid IM chat/irc client :)
02:24.58 Jonimus but the fix is very easy, only a change of like 6 lines
02:24.59 brlcad Jonimus: really??
02:25.03 brlcad we're only one minor off
02:25.10 brlcad iirc
02:26.09 Jonimus brlcad: yeah, I found it out when trying to build it on my Arch Linux install, one of the Arch Linux Dev's posted a patch here http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8320
02:26.31 digilord brlcad, Thanks I will try that
02:27.08 louipc :D I'll fix it!
02:28.15 digilord brlcad, libxi-dev is already the newest version there isn't another package
02:28.53 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03louipc * r37699 10/brlcad/trunk/src/ (fb/png-fb.c util/png-bw.c util/png-pix.c util/png_info.c):
02:28.53 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: png-: Replace png_check_sig with png_sig_cmp
02:28.54 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: png_sig_cmp has been deprecated since libpng-0.90
02:28.54 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: and has been removed in libpng-1.4.0
02:29.06 Jonimus From the bit of Brlcad I've tired it seems very nice, we have to use UGS NX6 at school but they don't have a licence for linux so I figured I'd try this as an alternative.
02:29.19 louipc Jonimus: should work in svn now :P
02:30.00 louipc doh my comment is wrong
02:30.03 Jonimus louipc: thanks, but you made a type in the second line there, png_check_sig was the one that was removed:P
02:30.09 louipc png_check_sig has been deprecated
02:30.15 Jonimus ya beat me :P
02:30.31 louipc stoopid
02:32.42 Jonimus Any Ideas why I'm getting a segfault upon exit in r600_dri.so?
02:32.56 Jonimus I'm using the open source ATI driver
02:33.07 Jonimus or should I talk to those devs about that?
02:33.21 brlcad oh, jeez .. louipc, beat me to it :)
02:34.17 Jonimus btw what commit bot do you guys use to post those comments?
02:34.20 brlcad louipc: cool, I see you noticed their patch was wrong too
02:34.32 brlcad Jonimus: that's the CIA system
02:34.34 brlcad cia.vc
02:35.16 louipc yeah I tested it
02:35.17 Jonimus thanks I'll take a look, I was looking to set one up for some of my friends
02:35.30 brlcad digilord: well you need libxi and libxt .. try deleting your configure cache, rerun configure and see what it reports for the Xi and Xt library tests
02:35.54 brlcad might be a case where it was installed after configure was first run and subsequent runs used the cache
02:36.37 brlcad it wasn't just deprectated, the func was made obsolete if it's no longer in the lib :)
02:36.42 brlcad it's deprecated now :)
02:36.51 brlcad (pre 1.4.0)
02:37.02 brlcad alrighty guys, gotta get some grub.. back later!
02:38.08 louipc bon appetite
02:48.24 louipc Jonimus: if you checkout brlcad in svn you should be able to go to misc/archlinux and just `makepkg`
02:53.42 Jonimus louipc: I built it from the source of the latest release, so with the size of the source I think I'll give it a try on Monday when I'm at School and have a much better connection
02:54.21 louipc cool. I'll fix the pkg in the AUR in a bit
02:54.46 Jonimus KK cool, I was surprised it was so out of date :/
02:56.20 louipc yeah I've avoided building it since my computer is kind of dying
02:56.23 louipc and I'm lazy
02:58.55 Jonimus ahh ok, If I wasn't busy enough with my own packages I'd offer to take it over for ya, my 3.6Ghz C2D makes it nice work of it :P
02:59.10 louipc cries
03:00.01 Jonimus why?
03:00.08 Jonimus what are you running?
03:00.16 louipc p3 866MHz
03:00.40 Jonimus heh that's my home server
03:01.03 Jonimus I got it for $20 at a resale shop, though I hope you have more than 256MB of ram
03:01.14 ``Erik nice, I'm still using a p3 650mhz
03:01.30 louipc 384 or something
03:01.46 Jonimus and you guys run Brlcad on those...
03:02.01 louipc yeah brl-cad runs fine
03:02.14 ``Erik heh, no, I use an 8 core 3ghz mac pro with 16g ram at work... :D
03:02.16 Jonimus but renders take two days :P
03:02.30 Jonimus nice ``Erik
03:03.35 ``Erik but my 'home server' is still an old clunker... it's sufficient for what it does, still working on getting the 1.2ghz arm fully working to replace it
03:04.42 Jonimus nice, I actually use the P3 for IRC and well as a dedicated gameserver, I ssh into it and have screen running with m IRC client
03:28.48 Atkins brlcad, Thanks for the feed back. I, too, had to step out for some calories. I can create a bug report to post my crash log to. Advise.
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03:31.44 Atkins On the GUI... I came from VariCAD. They also don't consider the GUI as something to waste time on :-/
03:38.13 Jonimus Atkins: heh, I've only used Solidworks and NX6 before this so its a bit of getting used to, though I like the amount of control you get with out clicking on a million things
03:39.12 Atkins I look forward to that same feel of control... :-)
03:44.54 Atkins Is there a 2D cad element in brl-cad for wiring diagrams?
03:45.43 ``Erik "sketch" might be what you're looking for?
03:46.03 louipc it's not particularly for wiring
03:46.19 Atkins Sketch... got it, I'll give it a try.
03:48.12 ``Erik Jonimus: BRL-CAD comes from a different era with different intentions... replicating existing stuff instead of creating new stuff, and from a time when mice were uncommon :)
03:50.35 Jonimus ``Erik: yeah I know, My dad and his GF were used to the AutoCAD from that era and I may even get them to use brlcad as well
03:50.45 Jonimus but then again brlcad is older than me :P
03:52.23 Atkins How is "sketch" run? From the cmd line?
03:53.08 Jonimus in, or make sketch I'd assume, but I'm new to brlcad as well
03:54.20 Atkins In.... yes, it looks like you are correct. I better hunt up a manual. Thanks.
04:16.38 louipc in sketch
04:19.49 Atkins Just played a bit with sketch. Quite basic as far as drawing goes.
04:25.42 Atkins I installed 7.10.4 on my Acer Netbook (Ubuntu Remix 9.04 + Compiz). The graphics wouldn't refresh properly. I compiled 7.16.6 and, as an afterthought, copied it to the Netbook. Runs quite well. Hats off to the programmers!
04:27.57 digilord Is tcl8.5.6 hardcoded into the application? 8.4.19 is what is installed.
04:31.14 Atkins tcl8.5 is installed in the lib directory (for 7.16.6). From an earlier bout with the Archer script (which looks for a version there), I expect mged works the same. (If that is what you mean by 'hardcoded').
04:31.55 digilord Ok. When I run 'make test' a number of errors come up stating that itcl can't be found
04:32.22 digilord I have itcl installed
04:32.46 CoconutCrab yeah, I am having the same problem
04:32.56 CoconutCrab have to run mged with LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib64/itcl3.4/:/usr/lib64/itk3.4/
04:32.59 CoconutCrab no idea why
04:38.22 digilord That's the only solution?
04:38.41 CoconutCrab emm.. yeah
04:39.01 CoconutCrab or export it
04:39.25 CoconutCrab is reading distro installation script to find what caused this
04:42.07 louipc oh hmm
04:42.57 louipc digilord: yeah you need to use tcl8.5
04:46.07 digilord Ok. tcl8.5 is 8.5.7 and for some reason itcl doesn't seem to be found
05:52.16 Atkins does anyone tell me why the "clouds" are drawn around several of the example db's (ex: bldg391.g)
05:52.36 Atkins does anyone...? can anyone... :-D
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06:17.55 louipc Atkins: it's for the sky
06:20.19 Atkins At first, I thought that was it. If it is, though, I'm not sure how the model was to be viewed...
06:21.11 Atkins I'll replace the cloud and try raytracing from the inside, out :-)
06:29.50 louipc yeah you can hide it, I haven't figured out how to get a view from inside though
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12:05.55 CoconutCrab do I need to enable opengl if I already have X11 support enabled?
12:06.46 CoconutCrab I tried to play around with archer but got an error message when trying to open a file : unsupported displayer manager type ogl
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13:02.10 ``Erik I d'no, archer might require it... it's not ready for public consumption yet, though...
13:05.56 ``Erik whoa, that's neat ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsDEfu8s1Lw
13:30.44 CoconutCrab ok
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14:42.27 brlcad http://tawannabyfall.vox.com/library/post/remembering-mike-muuss.html
14:43.08 brlcad archer does require opengl
14:43.19 brlcad at least, it assumes it
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16:58.12 digilord What Linux distribution should be used to ensure that one can compile and have all the tests pass?
17:02.16 louipc an up to date one?
17:03.12 digilord Ubuntu Karmic compiles but nearly all the tests fail
17:03.17 louipc if you're using svn at least
17:03.25 louipc hmm
17:03.39 digilord brlcad-7.16.6 from tarball
17:08.14 digilord Ok. Going to use 7.12.2 binary as I can't seem to get this working otherwise. Thanks for the suggestions all.
17:09.10 louipc I've never used tests to be honest
17:10.02 CoconutCrab I got all the test passed with gentoo
17:10.59 CoconutCrab but the ebuild doesn't work correctly, has to do a lot of patching so I am compiling it manually, not using the package manager
17:15.03 louipc CoconutCrab: does it patch step stuff/
17:15.23 louipc I can't build that on 7.16.6, but svn seems to work fine
17:16.16 CoconutCrab louipc: step? my problems are mostly related to dependencies
17:16.43 louipc step is an included library
17:16.57 louipc well I do need one patch for png stuff
17:16.58 CoconutCrab no, I don't have any problem with it
17:17.02 CoconutCrab 7.16.6
17:38.39 louipc tests seem to pass for me in svn
17:49.53 brlcad digilord: any platform should work fine if everything is installed -- our tests sometimes require specific setup or a make install first in order to pass -- "make benchmark" is the real test
17:50.14 brlcad if that works and mged runs, then it's pretty much a good build
17:51.12 digilord benchmark passes fine
17:51.34 digilord I followed the INSTALL doc (Yes I know, shocking) and make test failed
17:51.39 brlcad build failures take priority if you have one, we aim for excessive portability
17:51.43 brlcad pastebin?
17:51.46 digilord So I figured that the build was bad
17:52.01 brlcad it's hard to say
17:52.08 digilord I deleted the source and downloaded a binary
17:52.15 brlcad it "should" pass, but the tests are fragile to environment
17:52.37 brlcad some platforms, libtool makes binaries that won't run prior to install
17:52.40 digilord My machine is Ubuntu 9.10 64bit current
17:52.58 brlcad speculation without a paste
17:53.05 digilord Sorry.
17:53.13 brlcad np, not a big deal
17:53.42 digilord Is there a large difference between 7.16.6 and 7.12.2?
17:53.52 digilord Large enough to warrant me using the newer one
17:55.07 digilord If so I will compile again and paste the errors
17:55.34 brlcad heh, only a couple hundred feature changes
17:55.38 brlcad if you're learning, it won't matter
17:55.44 digilord Ok.
17:55.52 brlcad but if you run into any issue, the first thing we'll say is get up to date
17:56.09 digilord Ok re-compiling then.
17:56.27 digilord Not from SVN but the latest release tar
17:56.33 brlcad use svn
17:56.46 brlcad will get you past the gcc bug
17:56.53 brlcad ~cadsvn
17:56.53 ibot To obtain BRL-CAD from Subversion: svn checkout https://brlcad.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/brlcad/brlcad/trunk brlcad
18:08.52 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03brlcad * r37700 10/brlcad/trunk/ (include/spm.h src/libbn/sphmap.c): move the doxygen comments into the header, clean them up, ws style formatting consistency on the rest. expand header prototypes to fix the strict compilation failure reported by nita budd (Sinclair).
18:25.33 digilord So should I 'make test' and paste the failures from the SVN version?
18:33.08 brlcad sure
18:40.35 digilord brlcad, http://pastebin.com/m75d1a2e0 & http://pastebin.com/m7fbc67cf
18:41.21 digilord My distro only has itcl3.2 available
18:41.47 ``Erik then use the one that comes with BRL-CAD? :)
18:44.24 ``Erik if it detected that one by itself, try reconfiguring with --enable-itcl-build
18:44.25 ``Erik ?
18:47.30 digilord Ok trying that
19:01.30 digilord Yeah same output as http://pastebin.com/m75d1a2e0
19:02.11 Jonimus is 7.14.8 the newest windows build?
19:12.49 CIA-43 BRL-CAD: 03erikgreenwald * r37701 10/brlcad/trunk/src/util/pix-spm.c: pix_load, not px_load
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19:35.05 starseeker I didn't know Mike was involved with the Morris worm episode
19:35.08 starseeker cool
19:35.47 ``Erik amusingly, morris was grahams co-founder for viaweb O.o
19:36.37 ``Erik and I worked at fedex with one of the dudes involved in coming up with a "condom" for it when he was at purdue O.o
19:42.42 digilord If 'make benchmark' has one of the tests that shows '74 off by 1' is that acceptable?
19:44.46 ``Erik that's normal, the m35, right?
19:44.52 digilord YEs
19:45.10 digilord Just making sure that's acceptable
19:45.25 ``Erik yup, it's been doing that for a while (like, years?)
19:45.59 ``Erik either need to figure out why/how the torii changed or just regenerate the PIX file :/
19:47.30 Jonimus are there instructions on how to build an updated windows binary anywhere, I'd like to know that I'm using a current version on both OS's on this computer
19:51.19 ``Erik misc\win32-msvc8\ is how those're built
19:56.14 Jonimus KK I'll take a look
19:58.59 digilord Are there special args when one wants to make a menu item for say gnome? I tried /usr/local/bin/mged -a X but nothing starts. If I change the Type to 'Application in Terminal' it works but starts a terminal window.
19:59.35 Jonimus ``Erik: I'm doing a svn co and I'll give it a try in a sec
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21:28.57 digilord Hello again. I am going through the Tutorial PDF and I am in Lesson 2. After entering the first command I am being asked 'Enter ZMIN, ZMAX:'. This isn't in the tutorial. What are these values supposed to be?
21:29.18 digilord Nevermind
21:57.45 brlcad digilord: those errors are to be expected as make test requires run-time path searching to succeed for the tcl packages, which it can't do when we provide some and some are system installed
21:58.40 brlcad if you "make noprod" and reconfigure with --enable-all, that should give a build that will pass the tests
21:58.53 digilord brlcad, I am successfully working through the tutorial with a compiled version
21:59.05 brlcad regardless, if you make install and mged works, the tests would have all passed
21:59.31 brlcad those errors in test are from the uninstalled mged saying it's having initializtion failures
21:59.42 brlcad so it's all good
21:59.45 digilord Ahh ok got iy
21:59.47 digilord *it
22:25.21 digilord Lesson 4 - When I type 'mater shapes2.r' and press enter I get a Usage message not a prompt. Is this new behavior?
22:26.24 Jonimus digilord: yeah that command has changed since the tutorial was written, read on an you'll figure it out
22:31.20 digilord Ahhh ok
22:31.39 digilord No more prompt but you can use the one line command to accomplish the same thing
22:31.45 digilord still learning
23:41.58 digilord Ok... If I only have a 2 button mouse how do I do middle button operations in BRL-CAD?
23:42.42 ``Erik if you're on linux, you should have an X configuration to 'chord' a middle button
23:42.47 ``Erik if it's turned on, push both buttons at the same time

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