Problems building on OSX with Eigen

[DeFrenZ]

using homebrew latest eigen is installed (3.2.0) and brew doctor gives no issues. Building pcl with the following formula:

require 'formula'

class Pcl < Formula
  homepage 'http://www.pointclouds.org'
  url 'https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/archive/pcl-1.7.0.tar.gz'
  sha1 'b387f1ab218f545e3fe9f3c59d73b8fa8e2cf5ca'

  head 'https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl.git'

  depends_on 'cmake' => :build
  depends_on 'boost'
  depends_on 'eigen'
  depends_on 'flann'
  depends_on 'vtk'
  depends_on 'qhull'

  option 'with-debug', "Enable debug symbols"

  def install
    args = std_cmake_parameters.split

    if build.with? 'debug'
      args << "-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug"
    end

    system "mkdir build"
    args << ".."
    Dir.chdir 'build' do
      system "cmake", *args
      system "make install"
    end
  end

  def test
    system "bash -c 'echo | plyheader'"
  end
end

gives the following errors:

In file included from /tmp/-GJqJ/pcl-pcl-1.7.0/search/src/organized.cpp:40:
In file included from /tmp/-GJqJ/pcl-pcl-1.7.0/common/include/pcl/point_types.h:310:
In file included from /tmp/-GJqJ/pcl-pcl-1.7.0/common/include/pcl/impl/point_types.hpp:45:
In file included from /usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/Core:324:
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h:444:5: fatal error: recursive template instantiation exceeded
      maximum depth of 128
    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
    ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h:444:93: note: in instantiation of member function
      'Eigen::internal::triangular_assignment_selector<Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12>, Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12,
      1, 12, 12>, 1, 25, true>::run' requested here
    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
                                                                                            ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h:444:93: note: in instantiation of member function
      'Eigen::internal::triangular_assignment_selector<Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12>, Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12,
      1, 12, 12>, 1, 26, true>::run' requested here
    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
                                                                                            ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h:444:93: note: in instantiation of member function
      'Eigen::internal::triangular_assignment_selector<Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12>, Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12,
      1, 12, 12>, 1, 27, true>::run' requested here
    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
                                                                                            ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h:444:93: note: in instantiation of member function
      'Eigen::internal::triangular_assignment_selector<Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12>, Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12,
      1, 12, 12>, 1, 28, true>::run' requested here
    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
                                                                                            ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h:444:93: note: in instantiation of member function
      'Eigen::internal::triangular_assignment_selector<Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12>, Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12,
      1, 12, 12>, 1, 29, true>::run' requested here
    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
                                                                                            ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h:444:93: note: (skipping 119 contexts in backtrace; use
      -ftemplate-backtrace-limit=0 to see all)
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/Matrix.h:184:20: note: in instantiation of function template specialization
      'Eigen::PlainObjectBase<Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12> >::operator=<Eigen::TriangularView<const
      Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12>, 1> >' requested here
      return Base::operator=(other);
                   ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Eigenvalues/SelfAdjointEigenSolver.h:412:7: note: in instantiation of function template
      specialization 'Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12>::operator=<Eigen::TriangularView<const Eigen::Matrix<double,
      12, 12, 1, 12, 12>, 1> >' requested here
  mat = matrix.template triangularView<Lower>();
      ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Eigenvalues/SelfAdjointEigenSolver.h:159:7: note: in instantiation of member function
      'Eigen::SelfAdjointEigenSolver<Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12> >::compute' requested here
      compute(matrix, options);
      ^
/tmp/-GJqJ/pcl-pcl-1.7.0/common/include/pcl/common/impl/projection_matrix.hpp:188:82: note: in instantiation of member
      function 'Eigen::SelfAdjointEigenSolver<Eigen::Matrix<double, 12, 12, 1, 12, 12> >::SelfAdjointEigenSolver' requested
      here
  Eigen::SelfAdjointEigenSolver<Eigen::Matrix<Scalar, 12, 12, Eigen::RowMajor> > ei_symm (X);
                                                                                 ^
/tmp/-GJqJ/pcl-pcl-1.7.0/search/include/pcl/search/impl/organized.hpp:364:25: note: in instantiation of function template
      specialization 'pcl::estimateProjectionMatrix<pcl::PointXYZ>' requested here
  double residual_sqr = pcl::estimateProjectionMatrix<PointT> (input_, projection_matrix_, indices);
                        ^
/usr/local/include/eigen3/Eigen/src/Core/TriangularMatrix.h:444:5: note: use -ftemplate-depth=N to increase recursive template
      instantiation depth
    triangular_assignment_selector<Derived1, Derived2, Mode, UnrollCount-1, ClearOpposite>::run(dst, src);
    ^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [search/CMakeFiles/pcl_search.dir/src/organized.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [search/CMakeFiles/pcl_search.dir/all] Error 2

[jspricke]

@jkammerl can you have a look? Thanks!

[intlabs]

I am having the same issue, on OSX 10.8.5. Did you solve your problem?

[adamhunsw]

me too.. any progress?

[jspricke]

Please don't spam bug reports, as it makes them harder to read. This will be updated, if there is any progress. Also, you could be helpful by finding the exact cause of this (try a git bisect).

[TomMaddox]

Think we've just made a bit of progress on this issue.

Looks like it's an OS X specific problem and making sure the flag "-ftemplate-depth=1024" is added to CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS in /CMakeLists.txt

[ashb]

@TomMaddox In addition to your fix I had to make this change:

--- a/CMakeLists.txt    2013-11-07 11:23:14.000000000 +0000
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt    2013-11-07 11:20:31.000000000 +0000
@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@
 endif (PCL_ENABLE_SSE)

 # ---[ Unix/Darwin/Windows specific flags
-if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX)
+if(CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX OR ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
   if("${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}" STREQUAL "")
-    SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-Wall -Wextra -Wno-unknown-pragmas -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-format-extra-args -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-conversion ${SSE_FLAGS}")
+    SET(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-Wall -Wextra -Wno-unknown-pragmas -ftemplate-depth=1024 -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-format-extra-args -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-conversion ${SSE_FLAGS}")

     # Enable -Wabi for GCC > 4.3, and -Wno-deprecated for GCC < 4.3
     # to disable a lot of warnings which are not fixable

Without checking CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME it didn't seem to go into that branch. Maybe because I'm using clang (the default for modern OS Xs) it doesn't think its gnucxx?

This makes it compile at least. Going to test things actually work now (though I'm not sure my project uses features from eigen or not.)

[jspricke]

Hi @ashb, Clang is not GCC and so it's not GNUCXX as well ;). Also, please propose patches as a pull request, makes it easier to integrate them upstream. This is part of #343 already, btw.

[nizar-sallem]

@jspricke I didn't get those errors wil CLang, libc++, eigen and master on ubuntu. Something is probably off.

[ashb]

@jspricke clang is not gcc tru, it just accepts the same args which confused me. The solution in the other ticket is better. on 10.8 I didn't need the other changes, but those probably won't hurt.

[fran6co]

@DeFrenZ, you can close this issue #362 fixed this problem.