[Insight-users] What are the ._vnl_*.cxx files?

[Bradley Lowekamp]

Hello Luis,

	The "._" in the prefix is an important part. After looking at it  
again, it appears to be a binary file that was some how generated  
because I downloaded the tar ball with Safari. There actually appear  
to be one for every file extracted from the tar ball. I think it must  
be a security thing. I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, must be  
a new "feature". And I am running " cmake version 2.4-patch 7".

	My guess would be that the CMake is trying to get *.cxx file for that  
directory and it a added in these files which aren't suppose to be  
there.

	I just deleted the offending ones and it is working and passed the  
tests.

Thanks,
Brad

On Mar 27, 2008, at 4:25 PM, Luis Ibanez wrote:

>
> Hi Brad,
>
>
>             These files contain C++ code.
>
>
> The files contain explicit instantiations of VNL templated classes.
>
>
>         1) What platform are you using for building ITK ?
>
>         2) What tarball did you downloaded ?
>            What ITK version ?
>            What tarball extension ?
>
>         3) What version of CMake are you using ?
>
>         3) What compiler are you using ?
>
>
>
> Please let us know
>
>
>  Thanks
>
>
>    Luis
>
>
>
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> Bradley Lowekamp wrote:
>> I just downloaded the latest tar-balls yesterday and tried building  
>> ITK, and it's choking on some odd files. There are down in vxl/core/ 
>> */*/Templates/ and of the form ._vnl*-.cxx. The build process was  
>> choking on them. They appear to be binary files, and not CXX code.  
>> So I just deleted them and it seem to build right up (rebuilding  
>> now with tests). What's up with these files, should they be there?  
>> Is CMake suppose to exclude them? Perhaps my CMake is too old?
>> ========================================================
>> Bradley Lowekamp  Lockheed Martin Contractor for
>> Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
>> National Library of Medicine blowekamp at mail.nih.gov <mailto:blowekamp at mail.nih.gov 
>> >
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Bradley Lowekamp
Lockheed Martin Contractor for
Office of High Performance Computing and Communications
National Library of Medicine
blowekamp at mail.nih.gov


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