Thanks JS, your fixes are now checked in.
On Jan 24, 2008 9:41 PM, Jean-Sebastien Guay
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Robert,
>
> Following Paul Martz's and Bob Kuehne's course on VPB, I was able to do some
> rudimentary testing of vpbcache, vpbmaster and osgdem --so functionality.
>
> Here's what I did:
>
> 1. Create a ... "job script" I guess is what you would call it?
>
> osgdem --geocentric -l 4 --compressed --terrain -v 2000.0 \
> -d ..\globe\dem\srtm_ramp2.world.21600x10800.tif \
> -t ..\globe\tex\wtb_large.tif \
> -o world_20k_10k_4.ive \
> -a world_20k_10k_4.osga \
> --so world_20k_10k_4.vpb
>
> 2. Initialize the cache
>
> vpbcache --cache world_20k_10k_4.cache -s world_20k_10k_4.vpb --add
>
> 3. Then I created a file called "machines", containing:
> _________________________________
>
> Machine
> {
> hostname localhost
> processes 2
> }
> _________________________________
>
> 4. Run it!
>
> vpbmaster -s world_20k_10k_4.vpb --machines machines \
> --master-log master.log --cache world_20k_10k_4.cache
>
>
> Out of those, osgdem --so works as expected. vpbcache seems to as well. But
> for
> vpbmaster, I needed to make some changes:
>
> 1. You were using mode "wr" as an argument to fopen, whereas I think for
> read-write access "w+" is valid on all platforms. Using "wr" caused a crash
> on Windows, saying that it's an invalid mode. But I looked it up, and on
> Windows AND Linux, "w+" should be valid.
>
> 2. In MachinePool.cpp, to determine if we want to run on the local machine or
> remotely, we also check if the name is equal to "localhost" which is a
> valid name for the local machine on almost all platforms, regardless of
> the actual hostname.
>
> 3. I made some changes to FileUtils.cpp to make including windows.h a bit more
> clean and only include what we need, as well as using ::_flushall() to make
> sure we're using it out of the global namespace (like all other function
> calls in that file).
>
> With these changes, vpbmaster works on the local machine.
>
> I didn't test the ssh generation myself because I don't currently have a
> Windows
> machine that has an ssh server on it, but I plan to test that out soon.
>
> I can also throw up a quick page on the VPB wiki to document at least these
> command lines, if you want. It might be useful to others, and then you could
> just flesh that out when you have some time to document it.
>
> J-S
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