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

Afif Elghraoui afif at debian.org
Wed Sep 19 18:45:09 BST 2018



On September 19, 2018 12:31:10 PM EDT, Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj at debian.org> wrote:
>On Wednesday, September 19 2018, Andreas Tille wrote:
>
>> 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...
>

No, they mean they won't help with issues regarding building from source. The code is free and they provide a binary distribution of the suite in addition to conda packages.

They don't always use the latest versions of their dependencies, so conda enables that behavior.

regards
Afif



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