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2003-07-07 15:15

2005-02-25 08:38

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tk.sinha

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Ken Martin

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0000060: The default VTK_DATA_ROOT is not assigned dynamically in vtkTestUtilities.h

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In the current version of vtkTestUtilities.h, the default VTK_DATA_ROOT is not assigned dynamically during the CMake generation process. Instead it is assigned to "../../../../VTKData". While this facilitates easy testing for any code in the VTK directory tree, projects wishing to use the VTK_DATA_ROOT outside the VTK tree are unable to.

A possible fix for this (I think) is to mv vtkTestUtilities.h to vtkTestUtilities.h.in and change instances of "../../../../VTKData" to "@VTK_DATA_ROOT@". Then add a line to the CMakeLists.txt: CONFIGURE_FILE(vtkTestUtilities.h.in vtkTestUtilities.h)

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(0000978) Ken Martin (developer) 2004-04-26 11:18	OK. This code has changed quite a bit recently so let me check and see if the current situaiton works for you. Currently the testing framework sets VTK_DATA_ROOT using the following algorithm. If a -D option is passed on the command line then that argument will be used as VTK_DATA_ROOT, otherwise it checks to see if the environment variable VTK_DATA_ROOT is set and uses that, otherwise it uses ../../../../VTKData. Generally all the testing in VTK uses the -D flag to explicitly specify VTK_DATA_ROOT. Does this meet your needs? Or do you still prefer to have the fallback use a configured value instead of the ../../.. value?

(0002114) Ken Martin (developer) 2005-02-25 08:38	Modified vtkTesting.cxx to use a configured value for VTK_DATA_ROOT as the last resort as opposed to ../../../../VTKData

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