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.
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.
I would be infinitely grateful if freesurfer could build natively on Debian stable! ;) Thanks for trying. In my case I am trying the build under jessie chroot (using schroot helper), so I could quickly setup/enter such environment while maintaining user/directory. I will do the same now for 14.04. If you would like more -- let me know I could give a bit more detailed instructions.
Working on it now. Ill be attempting the build under a vanilla jessie install.
;) it is an output of 'git describe --tags', which bases it on a most recent tag, which was 5622 commits ago and its hexsha f2d0bcd. You could feed this beast to git directly -- it would swallow:
$> git show stable5_branch-5622-gf3d0bcd | head commit f3d0bcd7c4ee8604918725de07c8736191cb1b8f Author: Z K zkaufman@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Date: Tue Feb 16 17:03:00 2016 -0500
Changed to reference new GCA. -grevediff --git a/scripts/recon-all b/scripts/recon-all index 6e4ab62..bf35521 100755 --- a/scripts/recon-all +++ b/scripts/recon-all
Got it! Thanks.
-Zeke