[Insight-developers] Fwd: proposal: remove the gdcm build options from ITK

[Alexandre GOUAILLARD]

food for thoughts.

alex.



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Roden <mmroden at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 8:04 AM
Subject: proposal: remove the gdcm build options from ITK
To: Alexandre Gouaillard <agouaillard at gmail.com>, Gaëtan Lehmann
<gaetan.lehmann at jouy.inra.fr>, Mathieu Malaterre
<mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com>


Hi,

So I notice that under the new (and the old, incidentally) cmake
options for itk, there are the four canonical gdcm options, namely:

build_applications
build_examples
build_shared_libs
build_testing

However, since the gdcm stuff is supposed to be rolled in directly
with ITK, these options don't make a whole lot of sense to me.
Indeed, choosing build_testing as an option leads to cmake errors
which, when solved, lead to many compilation errors when testing is
turned on.

I propose to remove these options from the build process entirely.
The user isn't interested in gdcm per se, but in having dicom support
in itk.  That means that these options are not useful to the user, and
can only cause building problems.

Thoughts?

Mark