[Insight-developers] Owner of "redwall.kitware"

[David Cole]

This has already been discussed at length on the list and in the
gerrit review. According to this message from Alex, the max length
that worked on a *problem* machine (not all machines demonstrate the
problem) was 51:

  http://www.itk.org/mailman/private/insight-developers/2011-June/019283.html

The gerrit change for this is here:

  http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,1967

The only reasonable compromise (in my opinion) is to introduce a CMake
variable that can be set to allow any path length, so that somebody
building on a machine where "it used to work, so what's the problem?"
may set that variable and avoid the configure error.

Otherwise, I think we should be really strict here so that people
don't waste *hours* getting to the mysterious compile error that makes
no sense. (It says the file doesn't exist, but it actually does
exist...)


On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 7/15/2011 12:51 PM, Luis Ibanez wrote:
>>
>> Brad,
>>
>> Redwall is one of my desktop machines.
>>
>> I'll rather fix the directory length,
>> rather than removing the build.
>>
>
> Given that it used to build. Perhaps the length set is too short?
>
> -Bill
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