On 2/8/26 11:37 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 11:32 AM Steven A. Falco <[email protected]> wrote:
I just ran into a failure where KiCad's cmake scripts couldn't find
wxPython/Phoenix during a build. I had a BuildRequires on wxGTK-devel which
has been sufficient in the past. However, now it seems I have to also
explicitly include a BuildRequires wxGTK.
I looked at the packaging guidelines and the first sentence in
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_requiring_base_package says
subpackages should require their base package, but then in the next paragraph we have
"Devel packages are an example of a package that must require their base packages
using a fully versioned dependency".
So I'm not sure if this is a "should" or a "must". I'm also not sure if the
dependencies were recently deliberately changed for some reason.
Can anyone clarify this?
I think in general it's a MUST, there are a few exceptions where it
isn't (e.g. valkey-devel which is an amalgam header that doesn't link
to anything), but usually it is needed to make sure it behaves
properly, since not doing so can result in obscure link-time failures.
I looked at the wxGTK repo and I don't see any changes that should cause this.
The failed build is in copr [1]. I added a BuildRequires on wxGTK and started
another build [2] which is progressing normally. So it does seem that wxGTK is
now build-required where it wasn't in the past.
[1] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/g/kicad/kicad/build/10102587/
[2] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/stevenfalco/kicad/build/10104362/
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