Avogadro 1.1.1: Building with Eigen3 fails

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Hi there,

I’m speaking as part of the Debian package maintainers of avogadro. The
latest release 1.1.1 fails to build with Eigen3. The reason is, that
Eigen2 is still required, e.g. in
libavogadro/src/extensions/surfaces/openqube/CMakeLists.txt. Also
cmake/modules/AvogadroUse.cmake requires Eigen2. So it is not possible
to build with Eigen3 only and the build fails. Is this some kind of
intentional result or a bug?

I’m attaching the build log.

Regards, Daniel

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On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Daniel Leidert daniel.leidert@wgdd.de wrote:

Hi there,

I’m speaking as part of the Debian package maintainers of avogadro. The
latest release 1.1.1 fails to build with Eigen3. The reason is, that
Eigen2 is still required, e.g. in
libavogadro/src/extensions/surfaces/openqube/CMakeLists.txt. Also
cmake/modules/AvogadroUse.cmake requires Eigen2. So it is not possible
to build with Eigen3 only and the build fails. Is this some kind of
intentional result or a bug?

I’m attaching the build log.

It is a bug, Geoff submitted a patch to enable building with Eigen 3
for 1.1.1 (this is very new, and not well-tested - thanks for the
feedback). We can work on a fix for 1.1.2 (a few other things have
come up too), I will try and find some time to look into this further
unless Geoff gets to it first.

Marcus

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Argh.

Sorry for the very delayed reply. I have a new patch that will go up on Gerrit shortly that should work with Eigen3-only or Eigen-2 only. I had both on my laptop and didn’t catch the bug. :frowning:

Marcus… part of the problem seems to be that the #define in config.h is not getting to all of the code. Indeed, config.h isn’t #imported to much of the Avogadro codebase.

Thanks,
-Geoff