That was the intent, but things fell apart last minute. I got nearly everything installed into the VM but then ran into a critical problem with that version of the compiler (was using the latest Fedora). It was segfaulting during linking due to some lto bug. Time was up and other preparations had to be made, so I had to abort / defer.
Need to try setting up a different distro. Mint and very latest Fedora were a bust. Cheers, Sean > On Dec 2, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa > <vasco.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > If the VM works well again this year, perhaps we should make it the > default choice for all the people who do the task, in the GCI > description, this would both save us and the students a lot of time > during the GCI period to focus on the more complex coding tasks. > > Cheers, > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison > <brl...@mac.com> wrote: >> I’m just about done with a virtual machine image and will reference it in >> the beginner tasks. Mentors please keep uploading more task write-ups via >> the Code In interface! GCI starts tomorrow. :) >> >> Cheers! >> Sean >> >> >> On Nov 26, 2017, at 3:42 AM, Christopher Sean Morrison <brl...@mac.com> >> wrote: >> >> >> Hi All, >> >> So everyone is aware, GCI starts this week so there will likely be a rush of >> activity all around! Should be exciting... >> >> That said, we really could use a couple more mentors if you have even just a >> little time to spare. Even one day a week would be a huge help. Please join >> our IRC or Zulip channel (brlcad.zulipchat.com) and send me a message >> letting me know when you can help review tasks. >> >> For those of you already signed up to mentor, we have a couple days to write >> up the remainder of task descriptions. There are now an ample supply of >> task topics listed on the wiki. Feel free to use the manual GCI interface >> itself until you hear differently… still working on an alternative. >> >> Cheers! >> Sean >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> BRL-CAD Developer mailing list >> brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel >> > > > > -- > Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa > PhD in Computer Engineering (Computer Graphics) > Instituto Superior Técnico/University of Lisbon, Portugal > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > BRL-CAD Developer mailing list > brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
