On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Z K wrote:
is there a public clone of freesurfer on github?
Sorry, their is no public freesurfer on github. But at the current moment (and forseeable future) the public repo is an exact mirro of the private repo.
--disable-GUI-build -- wouldn't it disable then building all so necessary GUI tools? is there a way to overcome the shortcoming?
I was never able to get the GUI tools to build on Ubuntu. It is something I may revisit in the near future, but as of now, in order to build on an Ubuntu platform you will need to disable GUI building.
just confirming that I have managed to build it under 14.04 -- hip hip hoorray! ;) next one will be to try with GUI ;)
the only concern is that currently some subdirs makefiles do not care about DESTDIR, which is generally respected by autotools... attached patch should help (if only there was a public github... ;)) to make it 'installable' e.g. via
make install DESTDIR=$PWD/INSTALL-DIR/
it would be a nice "test" to add to .travis.yml upon successful build, without system wide installation with sudo ;)
We simply dont have the resources to ensure build capability on all linux (and mac) based OSes. For now simply we make the claim that freesurfer will build on centos, and will run on nearly all the major linux distros.
Fair enough. but may be together we could push it forward step by step ;)