[ODE] Linux Trimesh problems

[nlin@nlin.net]

On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 01:26:18AM -0700, Shaul Kedem wrote:
> Hi,
>  Checking the new version using single precision on
> linux (RH 9, Athlon 1.1, gcc 3.2.2) test_trimesh has
> two weird behaviors:
>  - Spheres are rolling back and forth never stopping
> at one place (perpetrum mobila at last?) - I guess
> this is due to no friction in spheres
>  - If you start off by pressing "b" with some luck you
> will see that box going to infinity (doesn't happen
> every time, and after the first 3-5 boxes everything
> is ok, weird).
> 
> test_moving_trimesh does work with spheres but not
> with boxes (is this a known issue? I think I read that
> somewhere..)

I had the same behavior here, on Debian Linux (running on a P-III 850).
Recompiling OPCODE and ODE with gcc-2.95 seemed to mostly solve the
problems. Looks like this might be a compiler issue. Sigh.

-Norman