[MINC-development] minc 2.0.14 issues

[Steve M. Robbins]

Hi,

Just to let you know, I've recently uploaded MINC 2.0.14 to Debian.
There's an active project to get all kinds of medical imaging software
into Debian; see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMedImaging.  FSL is in,
and there is interest in AFNI, Caret, and FreeSurfer.  Since the
latter is built on MINC, work was started on a number of BIC packages,
including mni_autoreg and N3.

Since Andrew says 2.0.15 is imminent, I thought I'd share a couple of
issues that have come up, in case you're not closely following the
Debian packaging effort (http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/minc.html).

1. The 2.0.14 upload failed to build on Arm and on Sparc.  See
http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=minc for build logs.  The
failures are in test cases in libsrc2/test.  I will poke around, but
if you have any hints for me: I'm all ears.

2. I built MINC using --enable-acr-nema for the first time, and
discovered that it produces a program named "extract" that simply
extracts bytes from the middle of the input.  Unfortunately, this name
clashes with a pre-existing software package that has more claim to
the name (http://bugs.debian.org/459834).  Fortunately, it looks to me
like MINC's extract can be replaced by "dd".  So I plan to solve this
by removing "extract" from Debian's package.  The same goes for
byte_swap.  Maybe they can be removed completely?  Is anyone really
using these tools (and can't switch to using dd)?

3. I notice now that --enable-acr-nema installs libacr_nema, which is
not versioned.  It should be versioned the same manner as libminc and
libvolume_io.

4. It turns out that one should build using -mieee on Alpha
(http://bugs.debian.org/368263).


Cheers,
-Steve
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