[Debian-med-packaging] How to make meson accept that `pkg-config --cflags ` has empty result in case only /usr/include is needed

[Sergio Durigan Junior]

On Wednesday, September 19 2018, Andreas Tille wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 02:43:43PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
>> > >
>> > > Any idea how to fix this?
>> > 
>> > This can't work.  From the source code:
>> > 
>> >   class HDFGroup : public HDFAttributable
>> >   {
>> >   public:
>> >       ...
>> > 
>> >       int Initialize(H5::Group& fg, std::string groupName);
>> > 
>> >       int Initialize(HDFGroup& parentGroup, std::string groupName);
>> > 
>> >       ...
>> >   };
>> > 
>> > But:
>> > 
>> >   template <typename T>
>> >   class HDFAtom : public HDFData
>> >   {
>> >   public:
>> > 
>> >       ...
>> >       int Initialize(H5::H5File &hdfFile, const std::string &groupName,
>> >                      const std::string &attributeName)
>> >       {
>> >           HDFGroup group;
>> >           group.Initialize(hdfFile, groupName);
>> >           attribute = group.group.openAttribute(attributeName.c_str());
>> >           isInitialized = true;
>> >           return 1;
>> >       }
>> >       ...
>> > 
>> > 
>> > The HDFAtom::Initialize above is calling "group.Initialize" passing an
>> > "H5::H5File&" as the first parameter, but there's no
>> > "H5Group::Initialize (H5::H5File&...)" method declared.  This is a bug.
>> > 
>> > The code is too cryptic for me understand what the correct solution is
>> > in this case.  There are a few possibilities (creating a HDFFile first,
>> > iterating over the available groups, etc.), but I'm not sure.
>> > 
>> > I'd report this upstream.
>> 
>> Thanks for your hint - I did so in
>> 
>>     https://github.com/PacificBiosciences/blasr_libcpp/issues/166
>
> This issue was closed with the remark:
>
>    We don't support source builds. Please install blasr via bioconda as the README states. Thank you.
>
> and than they closed the issue tracker at all (Github says 404 and the
> issues entry vanished).  Pretty unhelpful and I wonder how bioconda
> might magically resolve conflicting definitions.

Oh, wow.  What do they mean by "we don't support source builds"?  The
user can't build the software?  This doesn't seem so free to me...

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