OK -- even at the danger of loosing focus let me
try to explain each your points.
> enblend-4.1.1-3.fc19.i686
The latest release in the Stable
Branch is 4.1.3. We are already preparing 4.1.4.
OTOH, the Development Branch of course holds
much more goodies.
> The TMPDIR ought also be mentioned in the
> manpage, attaching a patch.
THX for your patch! We have a pretty
similar one in rev188e286e471d, which I just
back-ported to the Stable Branch. It will show
up in 4.1.4.
> However, looking at the source code I am
> wondering if TMPDIR gets used at all - or is
> it dead code now?
(i) Enblend and Enfuse only refer to the
environment variable `TMPDIR' if they were
compiled with the ImageCache feature.
Otherwise they store everything in core and
thus don't need a reference to a scratch
directory.
(ii) The ImageCache feature was withdrawn in
4.2 because of the spurious problems it
causes; see, e.g.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/enblend/+bug/807439
Moreover, the ImageCache is incompatible
with OpenMP, our main parallelization
technology. Therefore, current Development
Branch does not use `TMPDIR', either.
(iii) The `mmap_view' branch
http://hg.code.sf.net/p/enblend/code/rev/7a3964af671a
uses a different "caching scheme" to offload
image data from core to disk. It needs to
know where to store the backing-files for
the images and thus again refers to
`TMPDIR'.
> In my case I had additional screw up as hugin
> discarded the preset TMPDIR and when setting
> the hugin tmpdir via gui somehow this setting
> has been reset on one occasion.
This looks more like a Hugin issue to
me, although we can think about adding a
command-line option to set/override `TMPDIR'.
You could easily work around the problem by
wrapping the calls to Enblend and Enfuse in
shell scripts that override `TMPDIR'. I imagine
something like
#! /bin/dash
export TMPDIR=/work
exec /usr/local/bin/enblend "$@"
** Changed in: enblend
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: enblend
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: enblend
Assignee: (unassigned) => Christoph Spiel (cspiel)
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