[Debian-med-packaging] Cmake help needed: Fails to find check.h and ieeefp.h

[Birger Schacht]

hi,

On 12/3/18 7:19 PM, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I try to build the latest libsbml[1] in Git but I was running
> into:
> 
> cat /build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log
> Determining if files check.h exist failed with the following output:
> Change Dir: /build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
> 
> Run Build Command:"/usr/bin/make" "cmTC_71faf/fast"
> make[2]: Entering directory '/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
> /usr/bin/make -f CMakeFiles/cmTC_71faf.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/cmTC_71faf.dir/build
> make[3]: Entering directory '/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
> Building C object CMakeFiles/cmTC_71faf.dir/HAVE_CHECK_H.c.o
> /usr/bin/cc   -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC    -o CMakeFiles/cmTC_71faf.dir/HAVE_CHECK_H.c.o   -c /build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CheckIncludeFiles/HAVE_CHECK_H.c
> /build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CheckIncludeFiles/HAVE_CHECK_H.c:2:10: fatal error: check.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <check.h>
>           ^~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/cmTC_71faf.dir/build.make:66: CMakeFiles/cmTC_71faf.dir/HAVE_CHECK_H.c.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:121: cmTC_71faf/fast] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'

apt-file search /check.h gives me:
[...]
check: /usr/include/check.h
[...]

so maybe a build dependency on the package check helps?

> 
> Source:
> /* */
> #include <check.h>
> 
> 
> int main(void){return 0;}
> 
> Determining if files ieeefp.h exist failed with the following output:
> Change Dir: /build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp
> 
> Run Build Command:"/usr/bin/make" "cmTC_8b304/fast"
> make[2]: Entering directory '/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
> /usr/bin/make -f CMakeFiles/cmTC_8b304.dir/build.make CMakeFiles/cmTC_8b304.dir/build
> make[3]: Entering directory '/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
> Building C object CMakeFiles/cmTC_8b304.dir/HAVE_IEEEFP_H.c.o
> /usr/bin/cc   -g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC    -o CMakeFiles/cmTC_8b304.dir/HAVE_IEEEFP_H.c.o   -c /build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CheckIncludeFiles/HAVE_IEEEFP_H.c
> /build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CheckIncludeFiles/HAVE_IEEEFP_H.c:2:10: fatal error: ieeefp.h: No such file or directory
>  #include <ieeefp.h>
>           ^~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
> make[3]: *** [CMakeFiles/cmTC_8b304.dir/build.make:66: CMakeFiles/cmTC_8b304.dir/HAVE_IEEEFP_H.c.o] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
> make[2]: *** [Makefile:121: cmTC_8b304/fast] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/build/libsbml-5.17.0+dfsg/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeTmp'
> 
> Source:
> /* */
> #include <ieeefp.h>
> 
> 
> int main(void){return 0;}
> 
> 
> 
> I explicitly added "Build-Depends: libnewlib-dev" und thus there is
> 
> find /usr/include -name ieeefp.h
> /usr/include/newlib/ieeefp.h
> /usr/include/newlib/machine/ieeefp.h

if thats the ieeefp.h you need, maybe the include statement should say
#include <newlib/ieeefp.h>

cheers,
Birger

> 
> 
> I have no idea what check.h is seeked in src/CMakeLists.txt which has
> 
> # create libsbml-config-common.h
> #
> include(CheckIncludeFiles)
> check_include_files (check.h HAVE_CHECK_H)
> check_include_files (expat.h HAVE_EXPAT_H)
> check_include_files (errno.h HAVE_ERRNO_H)
> check_include_files (ieeefp.h HAVE_IEEEFP_H)
> 
> 
> but I know that the configure step worked in end of May when I did my
> last attempt to build that code.  Unfortunately there seems to be some
> issue with codesearch.d.n (I get "The results may be incomplete, not all
> Debian Code Search servers are okay right now." and no results) so I
> hope somebody can give a hint how to pass the configure step
> successfully.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>        Andreas.
> 
> 
> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/libsbml
>