Hello,
I am a newcomer for package maintaining. I'm currently working on packaging a
program [1] that uses CMake and requires some build dependencies, in this case
both cmake and gatb-core which has fortunately been already packaged as
libgatbcore-dev. I have created a patch file that is "meant" to use the
system-installed libgatbcore-dev instead of a submodule that comes with the
project on github. The issue comes when I try building inside a pbuilder
environment. The builder will complain with something like this:
...
Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_user_literals
Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_variable_templates
Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_variadic_macros
Feature record: CXX_FEATURE:0cxx_variadic_templates
dh_auto_configure: cd obj-x86_64-linux-gnu && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=None -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR=/etc
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR=/var -DCMAKE_EXPORT_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=ON
-DCMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY=ON -DCMAKE_INSTALL_RUNSTATEDIR=/run
"-GUnix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
-DCMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu .. returned exit code 1
make: *** [debian/rules:21: build] Error 2
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build subprocess returned exit status 2
I: copying local configuration
E: Failed autobuilding of package
Even though I had verbosity set, the message still didn't make sense. I tried
to copy out the project from my working (root) directory and try to "cmake ."
it manually with the build dependencies installed on my system, and it seems
like the reason was down to CMake complaining that "include could not find load
file GatbCore". I'm not strong with CMake at all and any guidance would be much
appreciated! Hopefully I covered any needed messages and reproducible steps as
this is my first package and first message on a mailing list with a wide
audience.
Thanks,
Shayan Doust
[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/mindthegap
