[Brlcad-users] gqa.log failure in "make test"

[Enrique Perez-T. <en...@on...>]

Hello,

I just build and installed brlcad from cvs.

I then ran "make test", and got some strange errors in gqa.log, the last test script:

$ LC_ALL=C cat -v gqa.log
../src/gtools/.libs/g_qa -u m,m^3,kg -g 0.25m,0.5mm -p -Ao gqa.g overlaps
Units:  length: m volume: m^3 weight: kg
Bad units specifier "M-XM-k^D^H^XM-r^D^H@M-w^D^HSM-}^D^HZM-}^D^HaM-}^D^H" on value "0.25m,0.5mm"
error parsing grid spacing value "0.25m,0.5mm"


Any idea what this could be?


Then I just tried "mged tank.g", and got the following output; I have edited line breaks for
readability and added some comments:

> Initializing and backgrounding, please wait...Itcl_Init errorCan't find a usable itcl.tcl in the following directories:
>     /usr/share/itcl3.3
>     ./../lib/itcl3.3
>     ./../library
>     ./../../library
>     ./../../itcl/library
>     ./../../../itcl/library
>     ./../../../../itcl/library
>     ./../../../../../itcl/library
>     ./src/other/incrTcl/itcl/library
>     ./../src/other/incrTcl/itcl/library
>     ./../../src/other/incrTcl/itcl/library
>     ./../../../src/other/incrTcl/itcl/library
>     ./../../../../src/other/incrTcl/itcl/library
>     ./../../../../../src/other/incrTcl/itcl/library
>This probably means that Itcl/Tcl weren't installed properly.
> If you know where the Itcl library directory was installed,
> you can set the environment variable ITCL_LIBRARY to point
> to the library directory.

The file is in /usr/brlcad/lib/itcl3.3/itcl.tcl

> Unable to find 'lib/tcl8.4lib/tcl8.4' within the BRL-CAD software installation.
> This copy of BRL-CAD may not be properly installed.

I configured without tcl because I have tcl8.4.9 which is newer than the distributed tcl8.4.6.  There is a symbolic link /usr/lib/tcl8.4 -> /usr/share/tcl8.4. There is a shared library /usr/lib/libtcl8.4.so.

> Unable to locate where BRL-CAD 7.5.0 data resources are installed
> while searching:
>         BRLCAD_DATA environment variable
>         BRLCAD_DATA compile-time path [/usr/brlcad/share/brlcad/7.5.0]
>         BRLCAD_ROOT common data path  [share/brlcad/7.5.0]
>         BRLCAD_ROOT common data path  [/usr/brlcad/share/brlcad]
>         BRLCAD_ROOT common data path  [/usr/brlcad/share]
>         BRLCAD_ROOT common data path  [/usr/brlcad]
>         current directory
>This release of BRL-CAD expects data resources to be at:
>         /usr/brlcad/share/brlcad/7.5.0

/usr/brlcad/sahre/brlcad/7.5.0 is a directory and contains:
   AUTHORS  awf/  COPYING  db/                   doc/         HACKING  html/  INSTALL
   NEWS     pix/  README   sample_applications/  tclscripts/  vfont/

and db/ contains a number of *.g files. What is mged looking for?

> You may specify where to locate BRL-CAD data resources by setting
> the BRLCAD_DATA environment variable.  For example:
>for csh/tcsh users:
>         setenv BRLCAD_DATA /path/to/brlcad/data
> for sh/bash users:
>         BRLCAD_DATA=/path/to/brlcad/data ; export BRLCAD_DATA

I should mention a few things, just in case: I edited the configure.ac
so it would not install tcl and tk if these already are present and working.
(I changed the default "yes" to "auto"; and I had to remove a line
that set brlcad_build_tk=yes irrespective of all earlier computations.)

I made brlcad thus:

cvs co brlcad
cd brlcad
mkdir build
cd build
bash ../autogen.sh
bash ../configure
make
su -
make install


I do have tck8.4.9 and tk8.4.9; and tclx8.3.5. Both the plain packages and the devel packages are installed.

The last part of the output from configure is:

> BRL-CAD Release 7.5.0, Build 20050823
>             Prefix: /usr/brlcad
>            Binaries: /usr/brlcad/bin
> Configuration files: /usr/brlcad/etc
>        Manual pages: /usr/brlcad/man
>CC       = gcc
> CFLAGS   =   -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fPIC -g
> CPPFLAGS = -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/local/include -I$(top_srcdir)/include
> LDFLAGS  = -L/usr/X11R6/lib -L/usr/local/lib -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fPIC -g
> LIBS     =
>Build Tcl ............................: no (using system)
> Build Tk .............................: no (using system)
> Build Itcl/Itk .......................: yes
> Build IWidgets .......................: yes
> Build libpng .........................: no (using system)
> Build libregex .......................: no (using system)
> Build zlib ...........................: no (using system)
> Build termlib ........................: no (using system)
> Build Utah Raster Toolkit.............: yes
> Build jove ...........................: no
>ADRT support .........................: no (need sdl)
> Java Developer Kit support ...........: no
> X11 support ..........................: yes
> OpenGL support .......................: yes
> Enable run-time debugging ............: yes
>Build 64-bit release .................: no (32-bit)
> Build optimized release ..............: no
> Build debug release ..................: yes
> Build profile release ................: no
> Build static libraries ...............: yes
> Build shared/dynamic libraries .......: yes
> Print verbose compilation warnings ...: no
>Only build benchmark suite ...........: no
> Only build librtserver ...............: no
> Generate doxygen documentation .......: no
> Install example geometry models ......: yes

I did use brlcad for a month or so approximately two years ago, but now I have forgotten almost everything I learned then. I don't even remember how I used to start mged, if any options are necessary, etc.

-Enrique