It is disabled by default, so should not affect existing configurations.
Main benefits of this goes as:
- Linux distros can use that to avoid libraries duplication and link
blender package against gflags package from the system.
- It it easier to test whether Blender works with updated version of
Gflags prior to re-bundling the library.
Couple of things here:
- Boost is not necesserily compiled into your /opt/lib and system-wide
version might have been used. The recent change in Alembic did not
take this into account.
- Alembic needs some extra component of Boost.
This part might be missing now for other distros than DEB.
This provides us with a clearer API (so I don't have to use const_cast<>
in upcoming code). It also allows layering of different Alembic files,
so you can have a base file and load a separate file containing overrides.
Verbally approved by Dr. Sergey.
Alembic requires one of ALEMBIC_LIB_USES_BOOST, ALEMBIC_LIB_USES_TR1, or
C++11, and silently defaults to the latter if the former two are OFF.
Before this change, Alembic was only built without C++11 of OpenEXR
was built at the same time. This dependency was both unnecessary and
undocumented.
Currently the tests don't run on windows for the following reasons
1) render_graph_finalize has an linking issue due missing a bunch of libraries (not sure why this is not an issue for linux)
2) This one is more interesting, in test/python/cmakelists.txt ${TEST_BLENDER_EXE_BARE} and ${TEST_BLENDER_EXE} are flat out wrong, but for some reason this doesn't matter for most tests, cause ctest will actually go out and look for the executable and fix the path for you *BUT* only for the command, if you use them in any of the parameters it'll happily pass on the wrong path.
3) on linux you can just run a .py file, windows is not as awesome and needs to be told to run it with pyton.
4) had to use the NAME/COMMAND long form of add_test otherwise $<TARGET_FILE:blender> doesn't get expanded, why? beats me.
5) missing idiff.exe for msvc2015/x64 in the libs folder.
This patch addresses 1-4 , but given I have no working Linux build environment, I'm unsure if it'll break anything there
5 has been fixed in rBL61751
Reviewers: juicyfruit, brecht, sergey
Reviewed By: sergey
Subscribers: Blendify
Tags: #cycles, #automated_testing
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2367
