[Insight-developers] configuration error about "ITK-Transform"

[Bill Lorensen]

Brad,

This is great. And we just talked on the t-con that we should have a
factory build that starts with a clean tree, but ONLY runs cmake. That
way we can detect these errors for gerrit topics.

Bill


On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 05/20/2011 09:57 AM, Xiaoxiao Liu wrote:
>> There is another configuration error on the dashboard related
>> to ITK-Transform, which is probably caused by circular module
>> dependency somewhere. You would only see this error when you
>> build ITK from a fresh directory.  Brad King is working on a
>> scheme to detect circular dependency and prevent this from
>> happening again.
>
> Here is a change to detect circular dependencies up front:
>
>  http://review.source.kitware.com/#change,1695
>
> I based it on a commit from before the circular dependency was
> introduced, so the version in Gerrit will build.  However, when it
> is merged the current subtle build failure will be replaced by an
> error like this:
>
> CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:252 (message):
>  Module dependency cycle detected:
>
>    ITK-ImageFunction => ITK-Transform => ITK-ImageStatistics => ITK-SpatialObjects => ITK-ImageFunction
>
> -Brad
>